American Georgics : Economy and Environment in Early American Literature [1 ed.] 9780812203189, 9780812236378

In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contra

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American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature 9780812203189
American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature 9780812203189

American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding

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American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land 9780300171846
American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land 9780300171846

A rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, reflecting how shifting views on agricu

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Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature 9780822393832
Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature 9780822393832

Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen

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Disability and the Environment in American Literature: Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm 9781498513982, 9781498513975
Disability and the Environment in American Literature: Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm 9781498513982, 9781498513975

This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriti

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Frontier in American Literature 9781400872206
Frontier in American Literature 9781400872206

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthor

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Presidents and the American Environment 0700620982, 9780700620982
Presidents and the American Environment 0700620982, 9780700620982

In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy expla

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Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 9781350009424, 9781350009455, 9781350009448
Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 9781350009424, 9781350009455, 9781350009448

The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era’s mo

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American Literature as World Literature
American Literature as World Literature

For better or worse, America lives in the age of “worlded” literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationali

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The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption 9781350231672, 9781350231696, 9781350233997
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This book offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the relationship of religion and economics in American culture. Its gui

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