Under the Sign of Nature – serie
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Sky of Our Manufacture
The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Av Jesse Oak Taylor, Sueellen Campbell
Inbunden, 2016
988 kr
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The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and …
Sky of Our Manufacture
The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Häftad, 2016
433 kr
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The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and …
Recomposing Ecopoetics
North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
Av Lynn Keller
Inbunden, 2018
988 kr
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In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-conscious Anthropocene,"" a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet. Recomposing Ecopoetics …
Recomposing Ecopoetics
North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
Av Lynn Keller
Häftad, 2018
433 kr
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In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-conscious Anthropocene,"" a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet. Recomposing Ecopoetics …
Building Natures
Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
Av Julia Daniel
Inbunden, 2017
841 kr
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In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets …
Building Natures
Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
Av Julia Daniel
Häftad, 2017
400 kr
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In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets …
Italy and the Environmental Humanities
Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Av Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
988 kr
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Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of …
Italy and the Environmental Humanities
Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Av Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
465 kr
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Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of …
Shakespeare's Ocean
An Ecocritical Exploration
Av Dan Brayton
Häftad, 2018
514 kr
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Study of the sea-both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation-has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare’s Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, …
Evergreen Ash
Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature
Inbunden, 2019
988 kr
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Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok …
Evergreen Ash
Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature
Häftad, 2019
465 kr
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Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok …
Novel Cultivations
Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2019
906 kr
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Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species—botanical and human—to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious …
Novel Cultivations
Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
433 kr
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Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species—botanical and human—to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious …
Of Land, Bones, and Money
Toward a South African Ecopoetics
Inbunden, 2019
922 kr
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The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which …
Of Land, Bones, and Money
Toward a South African Ecopoetics
Häftad, 2019
465 kr
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The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which …
New Woman Ecologies
From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond
Inbunden, 2019
812 kr
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A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms. As Alicia Carroll reveals, the New Woman also played …
New Woman Ecologies
From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms. As Alicia Carroll reveals, the New Woman also played …
Eden's Endemics
Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond
Häftad, 2020
400 kr
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In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more …
Magnificent Decay
Melville and Ecology
Av Tom Nurmi
Inbunden, 2020
988 kr
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What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological". By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century …
Magnificent Decay
Melville and Ecology
Av Tom Nurmi
Häftad, 2020
465 kr
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What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological". By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century …
Unsettling Nature
Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination
Av Taylor Eggan
Inbunden, 2022
1511 kr
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The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary …
Unsettling Nature
Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination
Av Taylor Eggan
Häftad, 2022
498 kr
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The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary …
Toxic Matters
Narrating Italy's Dioxin
Av Monica Seger
Inbunden, 2022
1087 kr
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In Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Italian environmental disasters: an isolated factory explosion in Seveso, just north of Milan, in 1976 and the ongoing daily toxic emissions from the Ilva steelworks in the Apulian city of Taranto. Both have exposed residents to high concentrations of …
Toxic Matters
Narrating Italy's Dioxin
Av Monica Seger
Häftad, 2022
390 kr
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In Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Italian environmental disasters: an isolated factory explosion in Seveso, just north of Milan, in 1976 and the ongoing daily toxic emissions from the Ilva steelworks in the Apulian city of Taranto. Both have exposed residents to high concentrations of …
Thoreau’s Botany
Thinking and Writing with Plants
Inbunden, 2023
1641 kr
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Thoreau’s last years have been the subject of debate for decades, but only recently have scholars and critics begun to appreciate the posthumous publications, unfinished manuscripts, and Journal entries that occupied the writer after Walden (1854). Until now, no critical reader has delved deeply …
Thoreau's Botany
Thinking and Writing with Plants
Häftad, 2023
498 kr
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Thoreau’s last years have been the subject of debate for decades, but only recently have scholars and critics begun to appreciate the posthumous publications, unfinished manuscripts, and Journal entries that occupied the writer after Walden (1854). Until now, no critical reader has delved deeply …
Queerness of Water
Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century
Av Jeremy Chow
Inbunden, 2023
1249 kr
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This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s …
Queerness of Water
Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century
Av Jeremy Chow
Häftad, 2023
366 kr
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This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s …
Climate Change and Original Sin
The Moral Ecology of John Milton's Poetry
Inbunden, 2023
1641 kr
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Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed that humanity bore …
Climate Change and Original Sin
The Moral Ecology of John Milton's Poetry
Häftad, 2023
580 kr
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Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed that humanity bore …
