The Environmental Imagination
Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
Published on 1. September 1996
600 pages
978-0-674-26242-3 (ISBN)
Description
With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell offers an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-26242-3 (9780674262423)
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Lawrence Buell
The Environmental Imagination
Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture
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03/1995
Harvard University Press
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Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Historical and Theoretical Contexts Chapter 1. Pastoral Ideology Chapter 2. New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities Chapter 3. Representing the Environment Chapter 4. Walden's Environmental Projects Part II. Forms of Literary Ecocentrism Chapter 5. The Aesthetics of Relinquishment Chapter 6. Nature's Personhood Chapter 7. Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons Chapter 8. Place Chapter 9. Environmental Apocalypticism Part III. Environmental Sainthood Chapter 10. The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage Chapter 11. The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau Chapter 12. Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author Appendix. Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence Notes Acknowledgments Index
