American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847
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biogeography studies
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Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
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Buffon's Ideas
Buffon's Theory
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Captivity Narrative
captivity narrative analysis
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Charles Brockden Brown
De Pauw
early American literature
early US environmental thought
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Edgar Huntly
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Histoire Naturelle
huntly
indian
Indian Captivity Narrative
Judge Temple
Juvenile Books
Juvenile Literature
Juvenile Magazine
Lake Otsego
Le Ry
Lenni Lenape
Madrid Earthquakes
Marmaduke Temple
Mother Goose's Melody
narrative
national identity environment
natty
Natty Bumppo
Natural Beauty
natural disaster narratives
Natural World
Peter Parley
Pitcher Plant
proto-ecocriticism
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781409431633
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, Gothic novels, and juvenile literature. Authors such as William Bartram, Ann Eliza Bleecker, and Samuel Griswold Goodrich, to name just a few, enabled the development of a credibly American brand of proto-environmental fiction. Sivils argues that these seeds of environmental literature would come to fruition in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers, which he argues is the first uniquely environmental American novel. He then connects the biogeographical politics of Cooper’s The Prairie with European anti-Americanism; and concludes this study by examining how James Kirke Paulding, Thomas Cole, and James Fenimore Cooper imaginatively addressed the problem of human culpability and nationalistic cohesiveness in the face of natural disasters. With their focus on the character and implications of the imagined American landscape, these key works of early environmental thought contributed to the growing influence of the natural environment on the identity of the fledgling nation decades before the influences of Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walden.
Matthew Wynn Sivils is Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University, USA.
