Environmental Imagination Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

Name: Environmental Imagination Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
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ISBN: 9780674258624

ISBN-10: 0674258622

ISBN-13: 9780674258624

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lawrence Buell

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With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.45" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.



Abbreviations


Introduction



Historical and Theoretical Contexts



Pastoral Ideology



New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities



Representing the Environment



Walden's Environmental Projects



Forms of Literary Ecocentrism



The Aesthetics of Relinquishment



Nature's Personhood



Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons



Place



Environmental Apocalypticism



Environmental Sainthood



The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage



The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau



Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author


Appendix


Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index