Writing for an Endangered World

By Lawrence Buell

Subjects: Environmental protection in literature, Environmental policy in literature, Landscapes in literature, Littérature américaine, Amerikaans, Ecologie, General, Ecology in literature, Letterkunde, Littérature anglaise, Environnement, Politique gouvernementale dans la littérature, American literature, history and criticism, Nature in literature, Natur, LITERARY CRITICISM, Literatur, Nature conservation in literature, American, Ökologie, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, English literature, history and criticism, Umweltschutz, English literature, American literature, Landscape in literature

Description: "Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, Buell's book provides the theoretical underpinnings for an eco-criticism now reaching full power. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment - whether built or natural - as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, Buell reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape."--BOOK JACKET.