The Environmental Imagination : : Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture / / Lawrence Buell.

• VerfasserIn: Buell, Lawrence,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 p.)

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I Historical and Theoretical Contexts
• 1 Pastoral Ideology
• 2 New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities
• 3 Representing the Environment
• 4 Walden's Environmental Projects
• II Forms of Literary Ecocentrism
• 5 The Aesthetics of Relinquishment
• 6 Nature's Personhood
• 7 Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons
• 8 Place
• 9 Environmental Apocalypticism
• III Environmental Sainthood
• 10 The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage
• 11 The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau
• 12 Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author
• Appendix: Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index