Myers Reconciling Nature

Literary Representations of the Natural, 1876-1945
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7680-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myers, Robert M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Resisting the Resistance Narrative

1. Civilizing Nature in Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2. The Ecological City in Crane’s Maggie

3. Therapeutic Nature in Chopin’s The Awakening

4. Disciplining Nature in Sinclair’s The Jungle

5. Progressive Conservation in Austin’s The Ford

6. Surveilling Wilderness in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy

7. Assimilative Nature in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

8. Environmental Stewardship in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses

Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert M. Myers is Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Studies program at Lock Haven University. He is the author of Reluctant Expatriate: The Life of Harold Frederic.