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How do we reconcile the abstract reverence for the natural world central to American literary history, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's \"Nature,\" with over a century and a half of widespread environmental destruction? Environmental Evasion examines the environmental implications of literary and cultural productions by writers from James Femimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Lloyd Willis provocatively argues that the environmentalist outlooks by Cooper and Longfellow were eclipsed by Ralph Waldo Emerson's abstract, imperialist vision of nature. He demonstrates how many 20th century American writers have taken the Emersonian approach, participating in a silent but extremely powerful form of evasive environmental politics in the ways in which they write about the natural world. Attentive to the inherent political dimensions of all texts, Environmental Evasion insists on the relevance of environmental history and politics to New Americanist approaches to the literary canon.
Editions of Environmental Evasion
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781438432816
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781438432823
- PDF
- ISBN 9781438432830
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How do we reconcile the abstract reverence for the natural world central to American literary history, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's \"Nature,\" with over a century and a half of widespread environmental destruction? Environmental Evasion examines the environmental implications of literary and cultural productions by writers from James Femimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Lloyd Willis provocatively argues that the environmentalist outlooks by Cooper and Longfellow were eclipsed by Ralph Waldo Emerson's abstract, imperialist vision of nature. He demonstrates how many 20th century American writers have taken the Emersonian approach, participating in a silent but extremely powerful form of evasive environmental politics in the ways in which they write about the natural world. Attentive to the inherent political dimensions of all texts, Environmental Evasion insists on the relevance of environmental history and politics to New Americanist approaches to the literary canon.
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What is Environmental Evasion about?
How do we reconcile the abstract reverence for the natural world central to American literary history, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's \"Nature,\" with over a century and a half of widespread environmental destruction? Environmental Evasion examines the environmental implications of literary and cultural productions by writers from James Femimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Lloyd Willis provocatively argues that the environmentalist outlooks by Cooper and Longfellow were eclipsed by Ralph Waldo Emerson's abstract, imperialist vision of nature. He demonstrates how many 20th century American writers have taken the Emersonian approach, participating in a silent but extremely powerful form of evasive environmental politics in the ways in which they write about the natural world. Attentive to the inherent political dimensions of all texts, Environmental Evasion insists on the relevance of environmental history and politics to New Americanist approaches to the literary canon.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Environmental Evasion?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism
Where can I read a sample of Environmental Evasion?
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How long is Environmental Evasion and how many pages does it have?
Environmental Evasion has 199 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Environmental Evasion?
Lloyd Willis
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Environmental Evasion is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781438432816) and paperback(ISBN 9781438432823) and pdf(ISBN 9781438432830)
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