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  1. Environmental practice and early American literature
    Autor*in: Ziser, Michael
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples, and... mehr

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

     

    "This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples, and honey bees, Michael Ziser presents a method for literary criticism that explodes the conceptual distinction between the civilized and natural world. Beginning with the English exploration of Virginia in the sixteenth century, Ziser argues that the settlement of the "New World" - and the cultivation and exploitation of its bounty - dramatically altered how writers used language to describe the phenomena they encountered on the frontier. Examining the work of Harriot, Grainger, Cooper, Thoreau and others, Ziser reveals how these authors, whether consciously or not, transcribed the vibrant ecology of North America, and the ways that the environment helped codify a uniquely American literary aesthetic of lasting importance"--

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781107248243
    Schlagworte: American literature; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Agriculture in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Natural history; Nature (Aesthetics); Ecocriticism
    Umfang: x, 224 p., ill
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    Sovereign remedies -- Staple-colony circumspection -- The pomology of Eden -- Beeing in the world -- Walled in and farmed out : pastoral isolation and Georgic collectivities
  2. Environmental practice and early American literature
    Autor*in: Ziser, Michael
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Campridge ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    This text rethinks American literary history by focusing on the non-human, environmental agents that have shaped its development. mehr

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    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    This text rethinks American literary history by focusing on the non-human, environmental agents that have shaped its development.

     
    Export in Literaturverwaltung   RIS-Format
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781107248243
    RVK Klassifikation: HR 1701
    Schriftenreihe: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166
    Schlagworte: Englisch; Literatur; Natur <Motiv>; Ökologie <Motiv>; Landwirtschaft <Motiv>; Ecocriticism
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 224 Seiten), Illustrationen
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