A greene country towne : Philadelphia's ecology in the cultural imagination / edited by Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braddock, Alan C., 1961- editor.

Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Ecocriticism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in art.

Ecology in literature.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"A collection of essays exploring the ways in which art and literature have imagined, animated, and embodied the complex ecology of Philadelphia since the seventeenth century. Essays utilize emerging methods of interpretation in ecocriticism, new materialism, art history, philosophy, and urban studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : imagining urban ecology / Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe

Ink and paper, clamshells and leather : power, environmental perception, and materiality in the Lenape-European encounter at Philadelphia / Michael Dean Mackintosh

"Processes of nature and art" : the ecology of Charles Willson Peale's Smoke-eaters and stoves / Laura Turner Igoe

Mapping the Quaker City's queer ecology / Mary I. Unger

Visualizing urban nature in Fairmount Park : economic diversity, history, and photography in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Nate Gabriel

Netted together : Eadweard Muybridge's Animal locomotion at the dawn of comparative biology / John Ott

Expansive exhibitions : agriculture and environment in Walt Whitman's Camden-Philadelphia region / Maria Farland

"Our yard looks something like a zoological garden" : Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and domestic animality / Alan C. Braddock

"A thorough study of causes" : W.E.B. Du Bois, the Philadelphia Negro, and progressive era materiality / Scott Hicks

Exhibiting Philadelphia's vital center : negotiating environmental and civic reform in a popular postwar planning vision / Amy E. Menzer

"Entertainment for all the senses" : Stephen Starr's experience dining and the revitalization of postindustrial Philadelphia / Stephen Nepa

"The water flows beneath it still ..." : remembering and re-imagining Philadelphia's old Dock Creek / Sue Ann Prince

Remapping Philadelphia's post-industrial terrain : a network in flux / Andrea Hansen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line -- 1. “Chimneysweep” illustration from The Cries of Philadelphia: Ornamented with Elegant Wood Cuts (Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1810), page 45; 2. Thomas Holme, A Portraiture of the City Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1683 [Shippen Copy with annot

ISBN:

9780271077130

0271077131

OCLC:

957077471

Publisher Number:

40026764174