The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literatu... - 9781041023883

Name: The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literatu... - 9781041023883
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental LiteratureAuthor(s): Alexander Menrisky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041023883, 978-1041023883\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human relationships with it from before the nations founding to the present. Providing a concise introduction to ongoing trends and debates in literary environmentalism and the study of environmental representation, this accessible volume also covers a variety of topics, including:\n\n the transatlantic and transnational origins of American environmental literature\n\n the development of the American wilderness ideal in nineteenth-century literature\n\n the American nature writing tradition\n\n the rise of ecological science and literary responses to it\n\n the environmenta.