Willis Environmental Evasion

The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of "Nature's Nation"
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3283-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Brings ecocriticism into conversation with critical American studies approaches to literary canon formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willis, Lloyd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

American Literature and Environmental Politics
Historicizing Environmental Politics
The Unique Problem of Environmental Politics

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the Formation of American Literature’s Core Environmental Values

Emerson’s Redefi nition of Nature
The Consequences of Emerson’s Abstract and Imperialist Nature

2. James Fenimore Cooper, American Canon Formation, and American Literature’s Erasure of Environmental Anxiety

Removing Cooper from History and Delegitimizing His Environmental Politics
Recontextualizing Cooper and Restoring His Environmental Politics

3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States National Literature, and the American Canon’s Erasure of Material Nature

Longfellow’s Literary Manifestoes
Longfellow and the Nineteenth-Century American Literature Debates
Longfellow’s Un-Emersonian Nature
The Nation’s Shifting Sense of Nature and Longfellow’s Hedge Against the Future
Erasing Longfellow and Naturalizing American Literary
Personality in the Early Twentieth Century

4. Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, Environmental Schizophrenia, and Monstrous Ecology

The Unavoidability of Environmental Politics in Willa Cather’s World
Environmental Desire and Environmental Schizophrenia
Cather’s Canonically Modulated Environmental Schizophrenia
Steinbeck, Ecology, and American Culture
Steinbeck and Monstrosity
Steinbeck’s Monstrous Ecology

5. Zora Neale Hurston, the Power of Harlem, and the Promise of Florida

Hurston, Harlem, and Power
Creating a Floridian Blackspace

Afterword

Ernest Hemingway and American Literature’s Legacy of Environmental Disengagement
The Circular Trajectory of Environmental Openness in In Our Time
Bad Faith in Green Hills of Africa

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lloyd Willis is Assistant Professor of English at Lander University.