The greening of literary scholarship : literature, theory, and the environment / edited by Steven Rosendale ; foreword by Scott Slovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosendale, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of thirteen original essays by leaders in the emerging field of ecocriticism, The Greening of Literary Scholarship is devoted to exploring new and previously neglected literatures, theories, and methods in environmental-literary scholarship.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. REMAPPING LITERARY HISTORIES

i. Saving All the Pieces: The Place of Textual Editing in Ecocriticism 3 Michael P Branch

2. Le Page du Pratz's Fabulous Journey of Discovery: Learning about Nature Writing from a Colonial Promotional Narrative 26 Gordon Sayre

3. Ecocriticism, New Historicism, and Romantic Apostrophe 42 Helena Feder

4. In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past: The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of Environmental Impairment 59 Steven Rosendale

5. Rivers, Journeys, and the Construction of Place in Nineteenth-Century English Literature 77 Alison Byerly

II. EXPANDING THE SUBJECT IN ECOCRITICISM

6. Locating the Uranium Mine: Place, Multiethnicity, and Environmental Justice in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 97 James Tarter

7. Landscape in Drag: The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warer's The Wide, Wide World ini

Andrea Blair

8. "Space Is a Frame We Map Ourselves In": The Feminist Geographies of Susan Howe's Frame Structures 131 Eleanor Hersey

9. Of Whales and Men: The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy's Environmental Imagination 149 James D. Lilley

10. Articulating the Cyborg: An Impure Model for Environmental Revolution 165 Louis H. Palmer III

III. RETHINKING REPRESENTATION AND THE SUBLIME

11. Surveying the Sublime: Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of Place 181 Rick Van Noy

12. "Mont Blanc": Shelley's Sublime Allegory of the Real 207 Aaron Dunckel

13. Vicarious Edification: Radcliffe and the Sublime 224 James Kirwan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

ISBN:

9781587294143

1587294141

OCLC:

56109553