Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology
(Part of the Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Series)
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What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological." By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century science, Tom Nurmi contends that he may best be understood as a proto-ecologist who innovatively engages with the entanglement of human and nonhuman...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813945011
ISBN13:9780813945019
Release Date:November 2020
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:294 Pages
Weight:1.33 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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