Writing for an Endangered World

By Lawrence Buell

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

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.