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American literature
anthology
anti-ecological
anti-ecological trajectory
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Charles Chesnutt
climate change
climate crisis
collection
creative
creative works
creative writing
eco-advocate
eco-terrorism
ecological disaster
ecology
Edgar Allan Poe
Edward Abbey
environment
environmental history
environmental literature
environmental preservation
environmentalism
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Isabella Bird
literary criticism
literary studies
Nathanael West
Rebecca Harding Davis
sustainability
Unabomber Manifesto
William Carlos Williams
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- ISBN 9780817360788
- Weight: 103g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America
Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance, Rozelle finds evidence that the ecosublime--nature experienced as an instance of wonder and fear--profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world, America’s increasingly anti-ecological trajectory, and the ascendance of a post-natural landscape.
In the 19th century, Rozelle argues, Isabella Bird and Edgar Allan Poe represented the western wilderness as culturally constructed and idealized landscapes. Gardens, forests, and frontiers are conceptual frameworks that either misrepresent or uphold ecological space. Modernists like Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams, on the other hand, portray urban space as either wastelands or mythical urban gardens. A chapter on Charles W. Chesnutt and Rebecca Harding Davis analyzes a new breed of literary eco-advocate, educating and shocking mainstream readers through depictions of ecological disaster. A later chapter probes the writings of Edward Abbey and the Unabomber Manifesto to delve into the sublime dimensions of environmental activism, monkey-wrenching, and eco-terrorism.
Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance, Rozelle finds evidence that the ecosublime--nature experienced as an instance of wonder and fear--profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world, America’s increasingly anti-ecological trajectory, and the ascendance of a post-natural landscape.
In the 19th century, Rozelle argues, Isabella Bird and Edgar Allan Poe represented the western wilderness as culturally constructed and idealized landscapes. Gardens, forests, and frontiers are conceptual frameworks that either misrepresent or uphold ecological space. Modernists like Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams, on the other hand, portray urban space as either wastelands or mythical urban gardens. A chapter on Charles W. Chesnutt and Rebecca Harding Davis analyzes a new breed of literary eco-advocate, educating and shocking mainstream readers through depictions of ecological disaster. A later chapter probes the writings of Edward Abbey and the Unabomber Manifesto to delve into the sublime dimensions of environmental activism, monkey-wrenching, and eco-terrorism.
Lee Rozelle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montevallo and publishes in scholarly journals such as Twentieth-Century Literature, Critical Studies, and ISLE.
