Environmental evasion : the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Willis, Lloyd, 1978-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2011]
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Environmentalism in literature. Human ecology in literature. Environmental policy in literature. Environmental literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: American literature and environmental politics. Chapter 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the formation of American literature's core environmental values
Chapter 2: James Fenimore Cooper, canon formation, and American literature's erasure of environmental anxiety
Chapter 3: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the American canon's erasure of material nature
Chapter 4: Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, environmental schizophrenia and monstrous ecology
Chapter 5: Zora Neale Hurston, the power of Harlem, and the promise of Florida
Afterword: Ernest Hemingway, and American literature's legacy of environmental disengagement.