Scott D. Hess explores how British and American authors' 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes during the nineteenth century, defining nature through fine arts and national high culture. His history traces the roots of a transatlantic environmental movement that was deeply shaped by social distinctions of race, class, and gender.
Scott D. Hess explores how British and American authors' 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes during the nineteenth century, defining nature through fine arts and national high culture. His history traces the roots of a transatlantic environmental movement that was deeply shaped by social distinctions of race, class, and gender.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Scott D. Hess is Professor of English and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where he teaches nineteenth-century transatlantic literature and cultural history and the environmental humanities. He is the author of William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2012) and Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (2005). His essays have recently appeared in American Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Studies in Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Literature, among other journals.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Genius: author, nature, nation 2. From Wordsworthshire to Thoreau Country: paradigmatic landscapes of genius 3. Landscapes of class and gender: John Clare, Robert Burns, Ann Yearsley, and Susan Fenimore Cooper 4. Frederick Douglass's literary landscape and the racial construction of nature 5. John Muir's Yosemite and the environmental politics of genius Conclusion: beyond an environmentalism of genius Coda: Walden pond in the anthropocene and a relational approach to the humanities Endnotes Bibliography Index.
Introduction 1. Genius: author, nature, nation 2. From Wordsworthshire to Thoreau Country: paradigmatic landscapes of genius 3. Landscapes of class and gender: John Clare, Robert Burns, Ann Yearsley, and Susan Fenimore Cooper 4. Frederick Douglass's literary landscape and the racial construction of nature 5. John Muir's Yosemite and the environmental politics of genius Conclusion: beyond an environmentalism of genius Coda: Walden pond in the anthropocene and a relational approach to the humanities Endnotes Bibliography Index.
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