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  • William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship

    The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture

    de Scott Hess ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth’s defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship": a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism

    Nineteenth-Century British and American Literary Cultures of Nature

    de Scott Hess ...
    During the nineteenth century, the idea of 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott D. Hess explores how those associations defined the modern significance of nature and precipitated the emergence of National Parks and the environmental movement. William Wordsworth's identification with the English Lake District, Henry David Thoreau's with Walden, and ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    de Scott Hess ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book ... Leer más

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  • Up from the Depths

    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

    de Professor Aaron Sachs ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis**Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • This Radical Land

    A Natural History of American Dissent

    de Daegan Miller ...
    "The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent's natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Romanticism

    de Aidan Day ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Lawrence Buell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Parody

    A Literary History of Caricature, 1760–1830

    de David Francis Taylor ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor's book explores how great texts, seen through ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Environmental Imagination

    Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

    de Lawrence Buell ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edición de Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Directions Home

    Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

    de George Elliott Clarke ...
    The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature.Directions Home explores the trajectories and ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Shakespeare After Theory

    de David Scott Kastan ...
    The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD