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Shades of green : visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860
- Title
- Shades of green : visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860 / Ian Frederick Finseth.
- Author
- Finseth, Ian Frederick.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xi, 348 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-339) and index.
- Contents
- Nature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy -- Natural science in early antislavery thought -- Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature -- Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler -- Crèvecoeur's natural contract -- Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history -- Natural evil and human development -- The problem of theodicy -- Antebellum natural science -- The natural law of free development -- Nations of blood -- The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany -- Of men and mollusks: Emerson's providential biology -- Race in the landscape -- Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination -- Toward an African American georgic -- Coda: antislavery pictorialism -- Revisiting, reliving, reforming -- The geography of the slave narrative -- From the garden to the swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Oxen and sweet potatoes: Douglass on the land -- Epilogue: shadows of green.
- Call Number
- Sc E 09-37
- ISBN
- 9780820328652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0820328650 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008010916
- OCLC
- 213375869
- Author
- Finseth, Ian Frederick.
- Title
- Shades of green : visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860 / Ian Frederick Finseth.
- Imprint
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-339) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 09-37