A Century of Early EcocriticismDavid Mazel University of Georgia Press, 1 de gen. 2001 - 370 pàgines In the 1970s the relationship between literature and the environment emerged as a topic of serious and widespread interest among writers and scholars. The ideas, debates, and texts that grew out of this period subsequently converged and consolidated into the field now known as ecocriticism. A Century of Early Ecocriticism looks behind these recent developments to a prior generation's ecocritical inclinations. Written between 1864 and 1964, these thirty-four selections include scholars writing about the “green” aspects of literature as well as nature writers reflecting on the genre. In his introduction, David Mazel argues that these early “ecocritics” played a crucial role in both the development of environmentalism and the academic study of American literature and culture. Filled with provocative, still timely ideas, A Century of Early Ecocriticism demonstrates that our concern with the natural world has long informed our approach to literature. |
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Henry Tuckerman on John and William Bartram 1864 | 20 |
James Russell Lowell on Henry David Thoreau 1865 | 26 |
John Burroughs on Walt Whitman Gilbert White and Henry David | 33 |
William Benjamin Carpenter on Sciences Representation | 48 |
Hamilton Wright Mabie on Hebrew Poetry John Burroughs | 78 |
Selden Whitcomb on Nature in Early American Literature 1893 | 87 |
Mary Woolley on the Love of Romantic Scenery in America 1897 | 101 |
Exchanges from the Nature Faker Controversy 19021907 | 113 |
1912 and 1923 | 208 |
Aldo Leopold on Forestry and the Hebrew Bible 1920 | 228 |
Mary Hunter Austin on Literature and the Regional Environment | 261 |
Mark Van Doren on Donald Culross Peattie 1937 | 272 |
Donald Culross Peattie on Thoreau Science and Nature 1938 | 278 |
S Savage on Nature and Immediacy in Poetry 1942 | 294 |
of Nature Writing 1950 | 302 |
Perry Miller on Nature and American Nationalism 1955 | 314 |
Mabel Osgood Wright on Nature Gender Outdoor Life | 154 |
Fannie Eckstorm on Thoreaus The Maine Woods 1908 | 163 |
Love of Wilderness 1909 | 173 |
Sherman Paul on Thoreau The Maine Woods and the Problem | 329 |
Leo Marx on the Pastoral in American Literature 1964 | 341 |
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