Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature : The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Navigating the Interior -- 2 John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble -- 3 Celebrating the "Great, Round,Solid Self" of Earth in Hawthorne's Short Fiction -- 4 Learning to Woo Meaning from Apparent Chaos -- 5 Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden -- 6 Always Already Sexual -- 7 The Swamps of Emily Dickinson -- 8 An Ecological Manifest Destiny -- 9 John James Audubon -- 10 Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature uncovers the rich variety of environmental writing across the genres in nineteenth-century American literature. Equally relevant to courses in nineteenth-century American literature and scholars of environmental writing, these collected essays offer a representative sampling of the nineteenth century's evolving exploration of the interplay between humans and the natural environment.

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