Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment

, by Branch, Michael P.; Johnson, Rochelle; Patterson, Daniel; Slovic, Scott

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ISBN: 9780893012137 | 0893012130
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1999

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Acknowledgments

(2)

Introduction

PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

(52)

Ego or Eco Criticism? Looking for Common Ground

(6)

WILLIAM HOWARTH

Toward an Ecology of Justice: Transformative Ecological Theory and Practice

(10)

JONI ADAMSON CLARKE

Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp

(10)

MICHAEL MCDOWELL

Dropping the Subject: Reflections on the Motives for an Ecological Criticism

(12)

ERIC TODD SMITH

Bodega Head: An Excursion in Nuclear Shamanism

(14)

JOHN P. O'GRADY

PART II GENRE, GENDER, AND THE BODY OF NATURE

(64)

"Whole Shoals of Men": Representations of Women Anglers in Seventeenth-Century British Poetry

(12)

ANNE E. MCILHANEY

Dorothy Wordsworth, Ecology, and the Picturesque

(12)

ROBERT MELLIN

Mary Austin's Nature: Refiguring Tradition through the Voices of Identity

(18)

ANNA CAREW-MILLER

Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean

(10)

J. GERARD DOLLAR

The Body as Bioregion

107

(12)

DEBORAH SLICER

PART III READINGS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE

119

(78)

The Ornithological Autobiography of John James Audubon

119

(10)

CHRIS BEYERS

"A beautiful and thrilling specimen": George Catlin, the Death of Wilderness, and the Birth of the National Subject

129

(16)

DAVID MAZEL

Nathaniel Hawthorne Had a Farm: Artists, Laborers, and Landscapes in The Blithedale Romance

145

(10)

KELLY M. FLYNN

Agrarian Environmental Models in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Farming"

155

(10)

STEPHANIE SARVER

Exploring the Linguistic Wilderness of The Maine Woods

165

(14)

ANN E. LUNDBERG

"I only seek to put you in rapport": Message and Method in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days

179

(18)

DANIEL J. PHILIPPON

PART IV READINGS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE

197

(62)

Beyond the Excursion: Initiatory Themes in Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams

197

(12)

JOHN TALLMADGE

Aime Cesaire's A Tempest and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books as Ecological Readings and Rewritings of Shakespeare's The Tempest

209

(16)

PAULA WILLOQUET-MARICONDI

Seeing, Believing, and Acting: Ethics and Self-Representation in Ecocriticism and Nature Writing

225

(10)

H. LEWIS ULMAN

Don DeLillo's Postmodern Pastoral

235

(12)

DANA PHILLIPS

"The world was the beginning of the world": Agency and Homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage

247

(12)

LEONARD M. SCIGAJ

Notes on Editors and Contributors

259

(4)

Index

263

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Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment

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