Environmental Practice and Early American Literature
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Part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Author: Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis
- Date Published: November 2013
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107005433
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This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples and honey bees, Michael Ziser presents a method for literary criticism that explodes the conceptual distinction between the civilized and natural world. Beginning with the English exploration of Virginia in the sixteenth century, Ziser argues that the settlement of the 'New World' - and the cultivation and exploitation of its bounty - dramatically altered how writers used language to describe the phenomena they encountered on the frontier. Examining the work of Harriot, Grainger, Cooper, Thoreau and others, Ziser reveals how these authors, whether consciously or not, transcribed the vibrant ecology of North America, and the ways that the environment helped codify a uniquely American literary aesthetic of lasting importance.
Read more- Provides the first history of American literature told from the perspective of the North American continent's ecological context
- Extends environmental history to literary analysis
- Historicizes and applies recent philosophical advances in ecocritical theory, actor-network theory and object-oriented ontology to literary study
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- Date Published: November 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107005433
- length: 231 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: more-than-human literary history
Part I. Leaves and Roots:
1. Sovereign remedies
2. Staple-colony circumspection
Part II. Fruits and Flowers:
3. The pomology of Eden
4. Beeing in the world
Conclusion:
5. Walled in and farmed out: pastoral isolation and georgic collectivities
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