Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and BeyondThe environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for an ecocriticism now reaching full power, and does so in remarkably clear and concrete ways. |
Contents
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America the Beautiful Jane Addams and John Muir | 9 |
Environmental Imagination and Environmental Unconscious | 18 |
Outline of This Book | 27 |
Toxic Discourse | 30 |
The Toxic Denominator | 32 |
Toxic Discourse Anatomized | 35 |
Toxicity Risk and Literary Imagination | 45 |
Dreiser and Jeffers | 149 |
Berry and Brooks | 157 |
Addams | 167 |
Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World Faulkner and Leopold | 170 |
Faulkner as Environmental Historian | 171 |
Go Down Moses and Environmental Unconscious | 177 |
Faulkner Leopold and Ecological Ethics | 183 |
Global Commons as Resource and as Icon Imagining Oceans and Whales | 196 |
The Place of Place | 55 |
The Elusiveness of Place | 59 |
Five Dimensions of PlaceConnectedness | 64 |
The Importance of Place Imagination | 74 |
Wideman | 78 |
Flaneurs Progress Reinhabiting the City | 84 |
Whitman Olmsted and Others | 90 |
High Modernism and Modern Urban Theory | 103 |
William Carlos Williams as Bioregionalist | 109 |
Later Trajectories | 120 |
Discourses of Determinism | 129 |
Urban Fiction from Dickens through Wright | 131 |
Rurality as Fate | 143 |
Resymbolizing Ocean | 199 |
MobyDick and the Hierarchies of Nation Culture and Species | 205 |
The Lure of the Megafauna | 214 |
The Misery of Beasts and Humans Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice | 224 |
Schisms | 225 |
Mediations | 236 |
Watershed Aesthetics | 243 |
From River to Watershed | 244 |
Mary Austin to the Present | 252 |
Notes | 267 |
Acknowledgments | 341 |
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