An edition of Writing for an Endangered World (2001)
Writing for an endangered world
literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond
By Lawrence Buell
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
eng
Pages
375
Description:
"Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, Buell's book provides the theoretical underpinnings for an eco-criticism now reaching full power. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment - whether built or natural - as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, Buell reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: American literature, Ecology in literature, English literature, Environmental policy in literature, Environmental protection in literature, History and criticism, Landscape in literature, Nature conservation in literature, Nature in literature, Environnement, Politique gouvernementale dans la littérature, Literatur, Letterkunde, American, General, Amerikaans, Umweltschutz, Landscapes in literature, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Ecologie, LITERARY CRITICISM, Ökologie, Littérature anglaise, Natur, American literature, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism