Shades of green : visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860 / Ian Frederick Finseth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finseth, Ian Frederick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

European literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Slavery in literature.

Nature in literature.

Antislavery movements in literature.

American literature--European influences.

Slavery--Philosophy.

Slavery.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

xi, 348 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009]

Contents:

Nature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy

Natural science in early antislavery thought

Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature

Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler

Crèvecoeur's natural contract

Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history

Natural evil and human development

The problem of theodicy

Antebellum natural science

The natural law of free development

Nations of blood

The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany

Of men and mollusks: Emerson's providential biology

Race in the landscape

Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination

Toward an African American georgic

Coda: antislavery pictorialism

Revisiting, reliving, reforming

The geography of the slave narrative

From the garden to the swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Oxen and sweet potatoes: Douglass on the land

Epilogue: shadows of green.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-339) and index.

ISBN:

9780820328652

0820328650

OCLC:

213375869