Transatlantic Literary Ecologies Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World |
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| Editor:
| Hutchings, Kevin
Miller, John |
| Series title: | Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-1-317-08727-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $54.95USD $200.00USD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socio-environmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement", literary discourses on conservation, and the...
More DescriptionOpening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socio-environmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement", literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism.