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Transatlantic Literary Ecologies (Hutchings, Kevin (Hrsg.) / Miller, John (Hrsg.))
Transatlantic Literary Ecologies
Untertitel Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World
Autor Hutchings, Kevin (Hrsg.) / Miller, John (Hrsg.)
Verlag Routledge
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
Seiten 218 S.
Artikelnummer 33210677
ISBN 978-0-367-88088-0
CHF 87.00
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Zusammenfassung
Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socio-environmental issues involving such topi

Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The chapters move from the broad to the particular, offering insights into Romanticism's transatlantic discourses on nature and culture, examining British Victorian representations of nature in light of their reception by American writers and readers, providing in-depth analyses of literary forms such as the adventure novel, travel narratives, and theological and scientific writings, and bringing transatlantic and ecocritical perspectives to bear on classic works of nineteenth-century American literature. By opening a critical dialogue between these two vital areas of scholarship, Transatlantic Literary Ecologies demonstrates some of the key ways in which Western environmental consciousness and associated literary practices arose in the context of transatlantic literary and cultural exchanges during the long nineteenth century.

Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.