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Beyond nature writing : expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism
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- Creator
- edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001
- Series
- Physical Details
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- x, 372 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813920139, 0813920132, 9780813920146, 0813920140
- OCLC
- ocm45202028
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / John Elder -- Introduction: Why Go Beyond Nature Writing, and Where To? / Kathleen R. Wallace and Karla Armbruster -- Pt. I. Reevaluating the Roots of Western Attitudes toward Nature. Beyond "Thou Shalt Not": An Ecocritic Reads Deuteronomy / Betsy S. Hilbert. Chaucer and the Politics of Nature / Lisa J. Kiser. Milton's Environmental Epic: Creature Kinship and the Language of Paradise Lost / Diane Kelsey McColley. Samuel Johnson Discovers the Arctic: A Reading of a "Greenland Tale" as Arctic Literature / William C. Horne. Before Nature Writing: Discourses of Colonial American Natural History / Michael P. Branch -- Pt. II. Uncovering New Ecocritical Perspectives on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Authors. Cultivating Desire, Tending Piety: Botanical Discourse in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing / Mark T. Hoyer. Ecological Hardy / Richard Kerridge. The Book "Laid Upon Landscape": Virginia Woolf and Nature / Charlotte Zoe Walker. Nature, Gender, and Community: Mary Wilkins Freeman's Ecofication / Terrell F. Dixon. The Great Rainbowed Swamp: History as Moral Ecology in the Poetry of Michael S. Harper / Elizabeth Dodd. Anti-Pastoralism, Frederick Douglass, and the Nature of Slavery / Michael Bennett. The Novels of Toni Morrison: "Wild Wilderness Where There Was None" / Kathleen R. Wallace and Karla Armbruster -- Pt. III. Expanding Ecocriticism across Genres and Disciplines. Literary Place Bashing, Test Site Nevada / Cheryll Glotfelty. Heading Off the Trail: Language, Literature, and Nature's Resistance to Narrative / Rebecca Raglon and Marian Scholtmeijer. The Non-Alibi of Alien Scapes: SF and Ecocriticism / Patrick D. Murphy. Discomforting Creatures: Monstrous Natures in Recent Films / Stacy Alaimo. Robert Frost, the New England Environment, and the Discourse of Objects / Kent C. Ryden. The Poetry of Experience / John Elder. Performing the Wild: Rethinking Wilderness and Theater Spaces / Adam Sweeting and Thomas C. Crochunis. Beyond Nature/Writing Virtual Landscapes Online, in Print, and in "Real Life" / H. Lewis Ulman
Subjects
- English literature -- History and criticism.
- Nature in literature.
- American literature -- History and criticism.
- Conservation of natural resources in literature.
- Environmental protection in literature.
- Philosophy of nature in literature.
- Forests in literature.
- Forestry in literature.
- Wilderness areas in literature.
- Outdoor life in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Ecocriticism.