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Reclaiming nostalgia : longing for nature in American literature

Title
Reclaiming nostalgia : longing for nature in American literature / Jennifer K. Ladino.
Author
Ladino, Jennifer K.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.

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Description
xvi, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Uniform Title
Under the sign of nature.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Having a field day: authentic Indians and patriotic tourism in the early national parks -- Longing for wonderland: Zitkala-Ša's post-frontier nostalgia : "plucked up by the roots": the nostalgic trajectories of the southern agrarians -- "Home thoughts": the transnational routes of nostalgia in Claude McKay's home to Harlem : born free and equal: frontier nostalgia and the nature of Manzanar -- Nostalgia's caring capacity: Rachel Carson's Silent spring, Aldo Leopold's A sand county almanac, and the "Last call" for nature : "a tear for the fate of America": the (crying) Indian as spokesperson for a vanishing natural world -- Remembering the earth: N. Scott Momaday's nostalgic American land ethic : patenting "the last of nature's creations": mice and men in a postnatural world -- Don DeLillo's postmodern homesickness: nostalgia after the end of nature : nature survives: frontier nostalgia on reality TV -- Nostalgia and nature at the millennium: Ruth Ozeki's green culture of life.
Call Number
JFE 13-2581
ISBN
  • 081393334X (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 9780813933344 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0813933358 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780813933351 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0813933366 (e-book)
  • 9780813933368 (e-book)
LCCN
2012026242
OCLC
798210583
Author
Ladino, Jennifer K.
Title
Reclaiming nostalgia : longing for nature in American literature / Jennifer K. Ladino.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Under the sign of nature.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 13-2581
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