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

by Lawrence Burll and 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674258622

ISBN13:9780674258624

Release Date:September 1996

Publisher:Belknap

Length:600 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Conservation Criticism & Theory Environment History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Movements & Periods Natural History Nature Nature & Ecology Science & Math

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