Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond /

Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buell, Lawrence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Environmental protection in literature.
English literature > History and criticism.
Environmental policy in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Toxic discourse
  • The place of place
  • Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city
  • Discourses of determinism
  • Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold
  • Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales
  • The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice
  • Watershed aesthetics.