The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse.
The London fog earned the portmanteau -smog- in 1905,...
The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. -The Best Read Naturalist- fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections--made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays--reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson's career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the -book of nature, - a more...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. -The Best Read Naturalist- fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections--made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays--reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson's career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the -book of nature, - a more...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central...
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and ...
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and ...
Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created in the early twentieth century. Through a combination of ecocriticism, urban studies, and historical geography, this book unveils the neglected urban context for seemingly natural landscapes in modernist poems.
Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green...
Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created in the early twentieth century. Through a combination of ecocriticism, urban studies, and historical geography, this book unveils the neglected urban context for seemingly natural landscapes in modernist poems.
Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green...
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy - as a territory of both matter and imagination - through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place.
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy...
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy - as a territory of both matter and imagination - through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place.
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy...