Writing the Environment in Nineteenth Century American Literature The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature 1st edition by Steven Petersheim , Madison Jones IV , Jeffrey Bilbro , Benjamin Darrell Crawford , Carrie Duke , Scott Honeycutt , Christoph Irmscher , Lu , Cecily Parks , Stephanie Peebles Tavera , Christopher Sloman ISBN 9781498508384 978-1498508377

Writing the Environment in Nineteenth Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature 1st edition by Steven Petersheim , Madison Jones IV , Jeffrey Bilbro , Benjamin Darrell Crawford , Carrie Duke , Scott Honeycutt , Christoph Irmscher , Li-Ru Lu , Cecily Parks , Stephanie Peebles Tavera , Christopher Sloman  – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:9781498508384 978-1498508377
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Author:Steven Petersheim , Madison Jones IV , Jeffrey Bilbro , Benjamin Darrell Crawford , Carrie Duke , Scott Honeycutt , Christoph Irmscher , Li-Ru Lu , Cecily Parks , Stephanie Peebles Tavera , Christopher Sloman 

The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations of environmentally-aware writing across the genres of nineteenth-century literature. Like Lawrence Buell, the authors of this collection find Thoreau’s writing a touchstone of nineteenth-century environmental writing, particularly focusing on Thoreau’s claim that humans may function as “scribes of nature.” However, these studies of Thoreau’s antecedents, contemporaries, and successors also reveal a range of other writers in the nineteenth century whose literary treatments of nature are often more environmentally attuned than most readers have noticed.

The writers whose works are studied in this collection include canonical and forgotten writers, men and women, early nineteenth-century and late nineteenth-century authors, pioneers and conservationists. They drew attention to the conflicted relationships between humans and the American continent, as experienced by Native Americans and European Americans. Taken together, these essays offer a fresh perspective on the roots of environmental literature in nineteenth-century American nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as in multi-genre compositions such as the travel writings of Margaret Fuller. Bringing largely forgotten voices such as John Godman alongside canonical voices such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, the authors whose writings are studied in this collection produced a diverse tapestry of nascent American environmental writing in the nineteenth-century. From early nineteenth-century writers such as poet Philip Freneau and novelist Charles Brockden Brown to later nineteenth-century conservationists such as John James Audubon and John Muir, Scribes of Nature shows the development of an environmental consciousness and a growing conservationist ethos in American literature.

Given their often surprisingly healthy respect for the natural environment, these nineteenth-century writers offer us much to consider in an age of environmental crisis. The complexities of the supposed nature/culture divide still work into our lives today as economic and environmental issues are often seen at loggerheads when they ought to be seen as part of the same conversation of what it means to live healthy lives, and to pass on a healthy world to those who follow us in a world where human activity is becoming increasingly threatening to the health of our planet.

Writing the Environment in Nineteenth Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature 1st Table of contents:

1 Navigating the Interior

2 John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble

3 Celebrating the “Great, Round,Solid Self” of Earth in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction

4 Learning to Woo Meaning from Apparent Chaos

5 Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden

6 Always Already Sexual

7 The Swamps of Emily Dickinson

8 An Ecological Manifest Destiny

9 John James Audubon

10 Recovering John Muir’s Wild Gardens

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