Research Catalog

Title

A place for humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the natural world / by Christine Gerhardt.

Author

Gerhardt, Christine

Publication

Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xiii, 268 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"A Place for Humility examines Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry in conjunction with this important change in environmental perception, and explores the links between their poetic projects in the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Gerhardt argues that Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry participates in this shift in different but related ways, and that their involvement with their culture's growing environmental sensibilities constitutes an important connection between their disparate poetic projects"--

Series Statement

Iowa Whitman series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Iowa Whitman series

Subject

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation
• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1800-1899
• American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• Nature in literature
• Environmentalism in literature
• Poetics
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I Noticing Small Worlds -- 1 "Turns unperceived beneath -- our Feet" Dickinson's Frequent Acts of Noticing Small Nature 31 -- 2 "What is the Grass?" Whitman's Originating Moment of Noticing Small Nature 55 -- Part II Describing Local Lands -- 3 "The Acre gives them -- Place -- / They -- Him -- Attention" Dickinson's Sparse Description 95 -- 4 "With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning" Whitman's Narrative Description 117 -- Part III Narrating the Regions -- 5 "A Field of Stubble, lying sere" Dickinson's Reluctant New England Narratives 151 -- 6 "Clearing the ground for broad humanity" Whitman's Affirmative Regional Narratives 166 -- Part IV Envisioning the Earth -- 7 "The Earth and I and One" Dickinson's Vision of Global Dwelling 197 -- 8 "What is this earth to our affections?" Whitman's Vision of Cosmic Companionship 208.

ISBN

• 9781609382711 (paperback)
• 1609382714 (paperback)
• 9781609382919 (ebk) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014006256

OCLC

• 878111752
• SCSB-11149647

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library