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Environmental evasion : the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation"

Title
Environmental evasion : the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" / Lloyd Willis.
Author
Willis, Lloyd, 1978-
Publication
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2011.

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Description
x, 189 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Environmentalism in literature
  • Human ecology in literature
  • Environmental policy in literature
  • Environmental literature > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: American literature and environmental politics. Chapter 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the formation of American literature's core environmental values -- Chapter 2: James Fenimore Cooper, canon formation, and American literature's erasure of environmental anxiety -- Chapter 3: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the American canon's erasure of material nature -- Chapter 4: Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, environmental schizophrenia and monstrous ecology -- Chapter 5: Zora Neale Hurston, the power of Harlem, and the promise of Florida -- Afterword: Ernest Hemingway, and American literature's legacy of environmental disengagement.
Call Number
JFE 12-1291
ISBN
  • 9781438432816 (alk. paper)
  • 143843281X (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010005119
OCLC
YBP 2010005119
Author
Willis, Lloyd, 1978-
Title
Environmental evasion : the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" / Lloyd Willis.
Imprint
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-1291
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