UID:
almafu_9960819766502883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 418 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st edition.
ISBN:
1-108-87787-7
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1-108-87756-7
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1-108-87226-3
Series Statement:
Cambridge critical concepts
Content:
Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of leading scholars of a variety of critical approaches, historical periods, and cultural traditions, the book examines nature's philosophical, theological, and scientific origins in literature, as well as how literary representations of this concept evolved in response to colonialism, industrialization, and new forms of scientific knowledge. Surveying nature's diverse applications in twenty-first-century literary studies and critical theory, the volume seeks to reconcile nature's ideological baggage with its fundamental role in fostering appreciation of nonhuman being and agency. Including chapters on wilderness, pastoral, gender studies, critical race theory, and digital literature, the book is a key resource for students and professors seeking to understand nature's role in the environmental humanities.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jul 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Nature of Literature -- I.1 Art Imitates Nature -- I.2 Nature, Ecology, and Environment -- I.3 Nature Writing and Its Discontents -- I.4 Book Structure and Chapter Descriptions -- Notes -- Part I Origins -- Chapter 1 The Book of Nature -- 1.1 Neoplatonism and the Symbolic View of Nature -- 1.2 Augustine, Exemplarism, and Books of Creatures -- 1.3 Reading Nature, Writing Poetry -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Pastoral -- 2.1 Pastoral as Classical Genre -- 2.2 Pastoral as Mode -- 2.3 Anti-Pastoral -- 2.4 Pastoral as Concept -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Wilderness -- 3.1 Wildeor: Wilderness, Language, and Orality -- 3.2 Nineteenth-Century Influences -- 3.3 Settler-Colonial Wilderness and Environmental/Social Justice Wilderness -- 3.4 Wilderness as Mode and Meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Lucretian Materialism -- 4.1 Lucretius: Key Concepts -- 4.2 Spenser's Lucretian Nature: A Case Study -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Natural Philosophy -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Natural History -- 6.1 From the Ancients to the Early Moderns -- 6.2 Natural History and Romanticism -- 6.3 From Linnaeus (Carolus) to Darwin (Erasmus) -- 6.4 Pleasure in the Natural World -- 6.5 The Darwins: From Erasmus to Charles -- Notes -- Part II Development -- Chapter 7 Romantic Nature -- 7.1 ''Then Came the Black Slaves'': Romantic Nature and Its Complexity -- 7.2 A Geography of Romantic Nature -- 7.2.1 French Romanticism -- 7.2.2 German Romanticism -- 7.2.3 British Romanticism -- 7.2.4 North American Romanticism -- 7.3 Critiquing Romantic Nature -- 7.4 Du Bois: Expanding and Transforming Romanticism -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Sublime -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Sublime Etymology and Syntax.
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8.3 Unsettling the Sublime: An Aesthetic of (Natural) Disequilibrium -- 8.4 Material Sublime: Relationality, Contingency, and Technology -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Toward a Transatlantic Philosophy of Nature -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Indigenous Naturecultures: Ecocosmopolitanism in Northeast Indian Poetry -- 10.1 Northeastern Indigenous Communities and Their Nature-Worldviews -- 10.2 Indigenous Philosophy of Nature: The Ao Nagas -- 10.3 The Local-Global Nexus? An Indigenous Response -- 10.4 Global Ecocitizenship and Indigenous Worldview -- 10.5 Anthropomorphism and Sacromorphism: A Balance between Belonging and Affectedness -- 10.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Postcolonial Nature -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Land Grabbing -- 11.3 Conservation -- 11.4 Resource Extraction -- 11.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Extinction -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Nature in the Anthropocene -- Notes -- Part III Applications -- Chapter 14 Nature, Gender, Sexuality -- 14.1 Feminist Ecocriticism, or Ecofeminist Literary Criticism? -- 14.2 Eco/Feminist Ecocriticism's Rhizomatic Spread: Species, Race, Sexuality -- 14.3 Conclusion: Dystopia/Utopia, the Scope of Ecofeminist Analysis -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Nature and Race -- Notes -- Chapter 16 The Nature of Animality -- 16.1 Posthumanism and Human-Animal Studies -- 16.2 Multispecies Ethnography and Science and Technology Studies -- 16.3 Animality Studies -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Cultivating Nature -- 17.1 Narratives of Farming before the Anthropocene -- 17.2 Cultivating Nature in the Anthropocene -- Notes -- Chapter 18 Narrating Nature: Narrative Theory and the Unnatural Nature of Climate Change -- 18.1 The Narrative Difficulty of Unnatural Nature -- 18.2 Narrative Theory as Pedagogical Tool -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Digital Nature -- 19.1 Theorizing a Digital Ecofiction -- Notes.
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Chapter 20 Toxic Nature: Narratives of Biocultural Precarity -- 20.1 Toxic Somatography -- 20.2 Toxic Genography -- 20.3 The Toxified Family -- 20.4 The Toxified Self and Prospective Teleology -- 20.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 21 Messages from Within: Primo Levi, Biosemiotics, and Freedom -- 21.1 Reading Levi in Quarantine: An Unrequested Premise -- 21.2 Messages from an Obscure Poet in Residence -- 21.3 Living Messages: Biosemiotics -- 21.4 Semiotics and Freedom: The Prison Camp as an Umwelt -- 21.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Intellectual and Environmental History -- Literary Studies (Monographs and Articles) -- Literary Studies (Edited Collections) -- Theory -- Anthologies -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108836760
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872263
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