Michael Ziser

Environmental Practice and Early American Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text rethinks American literary history by focusing on the non-human, environmental agents that have shaped its development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781107005433
• ISBN-10: 1107005434
• Artikelnr.: 37800840

Autorenporträt

Michael Ziser is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Environments and Societies Program at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: more-than-human literary history
Part I. Leaves and Roots: 1. Sovereign remedies
2. Staple-colony circumspection
Part II. Fruits and Flowers: 3. The pomology of Eden
4. Beeing in the world
Conclusion: 5. Walled in and farmed out: pastoral isolation and georgic collectivities
Notes.