Format:
v, 238 Seiten
ISBN:
9783030145712
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3030145719
Series Statement:
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Content:
The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for womens rights, native rights, workers power, and the abolition of slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society and enact solitary white male encounters with a feminine nature. However, the symbolic landscapes of Romanticism were often radicalized by writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, William Apess, George Copway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lydia Maria Child, John Clare, and Henry Thoreau. These authors showed how the oppression of human beings and the exploitation of nature are the twin driving forces of capitalism and colonialism. In addition to spotlighting new kinds of environmental literature, this book also reinterprets familiar texts by figures like William Blake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Walt Whitman, and it shows how these household figures were writing in conversation with their radical contemporaries.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
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Literatur
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Umwelt
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Romantik
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Equiano, Olaudah 1745-1797
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Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895
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Apess, William 1798-1839
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Copway, George 1818-1863
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Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797
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Child, Lydia Maria 1802-1880
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Clare, John 1793-1864
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Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Indigenes Volk
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Sklave
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Menschenrecht
