Environmental Evasion

, by Willis, Lloyd

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ISBN: 9781438432823 | 1438432828
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Copyright: 1/2/2012

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Brings ecocriticism into conversation with critical American studies approaches to literary canon formation.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction
American Literature and Environmental Politics	p. 1
Historicizing Environmental Politics	p. 4
The Unique Problem of Environmental Politics	p. 8
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the Formation of American Literature's Core Environmental Values	p. 19
Emerson's Redefinition of Nature	p. 21
The Consequences of Emerson's Abstract and Imperialist Nature	p. 25
James Fenimore Cooper, American Canon Formation, and American Literature's Erasure of Environmental Anxiety	p. 37
Removing Cooper from History and Delegitimizing His Environmental Politics	p. 38
Recontextualizing Cooper and Restoring His Environmental Politics	p. 43
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States National Literature, and the American Canon's Erasure of Material Nature	p. 55
Longfellow's Literary Manifestoes	p. 56
Longfellow and the Nineteenth-Century American Literature Debates	p. 58
Longfellow's Un-Emersonian Nature	p. 62
The Nation's Shifting Sense of Nature and Longfellow's Hedge Against the Future	p. 64
Erasing Longfellow and Naturalizing American Literary Personality in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 67
Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, Environmental Schizophrenia, and Monstrous Ecology	p. 75
The Unavoidability of Environmental Politics in Willa Cather's World	p. 76
Environmental Desire and Environmental Schizophrenia	p. 80
Cather's Canonically Modulated Environmental Schizophrenia	p. 82
Steinbeck, Ecology, and American Culture	p. 89
Steinbeck and Monstrosity	p. 92
Steinbeck's Monstrous Ecology	p. 94
Zora Neale Hurston, the Power of Harlem, and the Promise of Florida	p. 103
Hurston, Harlem, and Power	p. 104
Creating a Floridian Blackspace	p. 109
Afterword
Ernest Hemingway and American Literature's Legacy of Environmental Disengagement	p. 125
The Circular Trajectory of Environmental Openness in In Our Time	p. 127
Bad Faith in Green Hills of Africa	p. 130
Notes	p. 135
Works Cited	p. 167
Index	p. 185
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Environmental Evasion

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