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Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects, featuring observations by women writers as recorded in texts. The book presents a case for transnational women writers, participating in the discourse of natural philosophy from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries"--

Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: "For in order to bring 'environmental justice into ecocriticism, ' a few more articles or conference sessions won't suffice. There must be 'a fundamental rethinking and reworking of the field as a wh...

Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: "For in order to bring 'environmental justice into ecocriticism, ' a few more articles or conference sessions won't suffice. There must be 'a fundamental rethinking and reworking of the field as a wh...

This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Hall claims the creation of the National Trust in the United Kingdom and the National Parks in the United States were both shaped by literature. Central to Hall's project are links among Gilbert White, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of topics, which have not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the ecological or environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections su...