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Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

Buell, Lawrence

Paperback

Literary CriticismEnvironmental StudiesNature Writing

ISBN10: 0674258622
ISBN13: 9780674258624
Publisher: Belknap
Published: Sep 1 1996
Pages: 600
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more ecocentric way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.

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