the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" /
First Statement of Responsibility
Lloyd Willis
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Albany, N.Y. :
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State University of New York Press,
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c2011
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1010
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x, 189 p. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-183) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: American literature and environmental politics. Chapter 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the formation of American literature's core environmental values -- Chapter 2: James Fenimore Cooper, canon formation, and American literature's erasure of environmental anxiety -- Chapter 3: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the American canon's erasure of material nature -- Chapter 4: Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, environmental schizophrenia and monstrous ecology -- Chapter 5: Zora Neale Hurston, the power of Harlem, and the promise of Florida -- Afterword: Ernest Hemingway, and American literature's legacy of environmental disengagement