A landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America. Issues of ecology--both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues--have long been of interest to literary critics, and have given rise over the last two decades to the now firmly established field of ecocriticism. The essays in this volume, written by art historians and literary critics, seek to bring the study of American art into the expanding discourse of ecocriticism....
A landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America. Issues of ecol...
Issues of ecology - both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues - have long been of interest to literary critics, and have given rise over the last two decades to the now firmly established field of ecocriticism. The essays in this volume, written by art historians and literary critics, seek to bring the study of American art into the expanding discourse of ecocriticism. "A Keener Perception" offers a series of case studies on topics ranging from John White's watercolors of the Carolina landscape...
Issues of ecology - both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central is...
An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces.
By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia--from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings--through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which...
An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne exp...
