Intro -- The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Why the Nature Essay? -- 2 Nature Writing Revisited: Method and Scope of This Study -- 3 Roaming in an Interdisciplinary Field:...
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Intro -- The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Why the Nature Essay? -- 2 Nature Writing Revisited: Method and Scope of This Study -- 3 Roaming in an Interdisciplinary Field: Textual Corpus -- 4 Outline of Content -- 1 The Nature Essay and Genre -- 1 Aspects of the Essay: Characteristics of Form and Function -- 1.1 The Arrival of the Nature Essay around 1800 -- 2 Ways of Knowing and Making Sense of Nature -- 2.1 Reflection, Description, Introspection - Communication of Knowledge in the Nature Essay -- 2.2 Epistemes: Encyclopaedic-Scientific, Metaphysical-Spiritual, Ethical -- 2 "The Butterfly Collector": The Encyclopaedic-Scientific Episteme -- 1 The Aesthetics of Collecting and Connecting in Alexander von Humboldt's Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse and Ernst Jünger's Subtile Jagden -- 1.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse -- 1.2 Ernst Jünger, Subtile Jagden -- 2 Measuring and Mapping Nature in the Nineteenth Century: Henry David Thoreau's the Pond in Winter and Alexander von Humboldt's Über die Steppen und Wüsten -- 2.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Über die Steppen und Wüsten -- 2.2 Henry David Thoreau's Survey of Walden Pond -- 3 Data Prose - Contemporary Nature Essay Writing: Eliot Weinberger's Naked Mole-Rats, David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster, and Andreas Martin Widmann's Mind Gardens -- 3.1 Eliot Weinberger, Naked Mole-Rats -- 3.2 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster -- 3.3 The Natural World as Seen on Google: Andreas Martin Widmann, Mind Gardens -- 3 "Mother Nature's Son": The Metaphysical-Spiritual Episteme -- 1 Epiphanic Moments and Revelations: J.A. Baker's the Peregrine and Kathleen Jamie's Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes -- 1.1 J.A. Baker, The Peregrine -- 1.2 Kathleen Jamie, Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes.
