| Description |
x, 372 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Under the sign of nature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- Cultivating desire, tending piety : botanical discourse in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The minister's wooing / Mark T. Hoyer -- Ecological Hardy / Richard Kerridge -- Book Laid upon the landscape : Virginia Woolfe and nature / Charlotte Zoe Walker -- Nature, gender, and community : Mary Wilkins Freeman's ecofiction / Terrell F. Dixon -- Great rainbowed swamp : history as moral ecology in the poetry of Michael S. Harper / Elizabeth Dodd -- Anti-pastoralism, Frederick Douglas, and the nature of slavery / Michael Bennett -- Novels of Toni Morrison : "wild wilderness where there was none" / Kathleen R. Wallace and Karla Armbruster -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Nature -- Public opinion -- English-speaking countries.
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Conservation of natural resources in literature.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Philosophy of nature in literature.
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Forestry in literature.
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Forests in literature.
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Wilderness areas in literature.
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Outdoor life in literature.
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Landscapes in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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| Added Author |
Armbruster, Karla.
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Wallace, Kathleen R., 1963-
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| ISBN |
0813920140 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813920132 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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