The Greening Of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and he Environment
edited by Steven Rosendale
University of Iowa Press, 2002 eISBN: 978-1-58729-414-3 | Cloth: 978-0-87745-802-9 | Paper: 978-0-87745-803-6 Library of Congress Classification PN98.E36R67 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93355
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A collection of thirteen original essays by leaders in the emerging field of ecocriticism,The Greening of Literary Scholarship is devoted to exploring new and previously neglected literatures, theories, and methods in environmental-literary scholarship.
Each essay in this impressive collection challenges the notion that the study of environmental literature is separate from traditional concerns of criticism, and each applies ecocritical scholarship to literature not commonly explored in this context. New historicism, postcolonialism, deconstructionism, and feminist and Marxist theories are all utilized to evaluate and gain new insights into environmental literature; at the same time, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Susan Howe are studied from an ecocritical perspective.
At its core, The Greening of Literary Scholarship offers a practical demonstration of how articulating traditional and environmental modes of literary scholarship can enrich the interpretation of literary texts and, most important, revitalize the larger fields of environmental and literary scholarship.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Steven Rosendale is assistant professor of English at Northern Arizona University.
REVIEWS
“I'm genuinely impressed with the quality of the individual essays gathered here and with the cumulative power of the assembled material. Although I've been working in this field for a number of years, I feel as if this book offers a theoretical heft and argumentative sharpness I haven't encountered quite so fully in other books.” —Scott Slovic
“The Greening of Literary Scholarship makes a vigorous and distinctive contribution to ecocriticism. With its sensitive readings of both canonical and contemporary authors, its sophisticated grasp of social and aesthetic history, and its unusually thorough integration of theory, Steven Rosendale's collection will enrich the teaching and research of many scholars in this field. I know that it will be extremely helpful to my own.”— John Elder
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. REMAPPING LITERARY HISTORIES
i. Saving All the Pieces:
The Place of Textual Editing in Ecocriticism 3
Michael P Branch
2. Le Page du Pratz's Fabulous Journey of Discovery:
Learning about Nature Writing from a Colonial Promotional
Narrative 26
Gordon Sayre
3. Ecocriticism, New Historicism, and Romantic Apostrophe 42
Helena Feder
4. In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past:
The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of
Environmental Impairment 59
Steven Rosendale
5. Rivers, Journeys, and the Construction of Place in
Nineteenth-Century English Literature 77
Alison Byerly
II. EXPANDING THE SUBJECT IN ECOCRITICISM
6. Locating the Uranium Mine:
Place, Multiethnicity, and Environmental Justice in
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 97
James Tarter
7. Landscape in Drag:
The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warer's
The Wide, Wide World ini
Andrea Blair
8. "Space Is a Frame We Map Ourselves In":
The Feminist Geographies of Susan Howe's Frame Structures I3I
Eleanor Hersey
9. Of Whales and Men:
The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy's Environmental Imagination I49
James D. Lilley
1O. Articulating the Cyborg:
An Impure Model for Environmental Revolution 165
Louis H. Palmer III
III. RETHINKING REPRESENTATION AND THE SUBLIME
11. Surveying the Sublime:
Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of Place i8i
Rick Van Noy
12. "Mont Blanc":
Shelley's Sublime Allegory of the Real 207
Aaron Dunckel
13. Vicarious Edification:
Radcliffe and the Sublime 224
James Kirwan
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The Greening Of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and he Environment
edited by Steven Rosendale
University of Iowa Press, 2002 eISBN: 978-1-58729-414-3 Cloth: 978-0-87745-802-9 Paper: 978-0-87745-803-6
A collection of thirteen original essays by leaders in the emerging field of ecocriticism,The Greening of Literary Scholarship is devoted to exploring new and previously neglected literatures, theories, and methods in environmental-literary scholarship.
Each essay in this impressive collection challenges the notion that the study of environmental literature is separate from traditional concerns of criticism, and each applies ecocritical scholarship to literature not commonly explored in this context. New historicism, postcolonialism, deconstructionism, and feminist and Marxist theories are all utilized to evaluate and gain new insights into environmental literature; at the same time, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Susan Howe are studied from an ecocritical perspective.
At its core, The Greening of Literary Scholarship offers a practical demonstration of how articulating traditional and environmental modes of literary scholarship can enrich the interpretation of literary texts and, most important, revitalize the larger fields of environmental and literary scholarship.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Steven Rosendale is assistant professor of English at Northern Arizona University.
REVIEWS
“I'm genuinely impressed with the quality of the individual essays gathered here and with the cumulative power of the assembled material. Although I've been working in this field for a number of years, I feel as if this book offers a theoretical heft and argumentative sharpness I haven't encountered quite so fully in other books.” —Scott Slovic
“The Greening of Literary Scholarship makes a vigorous and distinctive contribution to ecocriticism. With its sensitive readings of both canonical and contemporary authors, its sophisticated grasp of social and aesthetic history, and its unusually thorough integration of theory, Steven Rosendale's collection will enrich the teaching and research of many scholars in this field. I know that it will be extremely helpful to my own.”— John Elder
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. REMAPPING LITERARY HISTORIES
i. Saving All the Pieces:
The Place of Textual Editing in Ecocriticism 3
Michael P Branch
2. Le Page du Pratz's Fabulous Journey of Discovery:
Learning about Nature Writing from a Colonial Promotional
Narrative 26
Gordon Sayre
3. Ecocriticism, New Historicism, and Romantic Apostrophe 42
Helena Feder
4. In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past:
The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of
Environmental Impairment 59
Steven Rosendale
5. Rivers, Journeys, and the Construction of Place in
Nineteenth-Century English Literature 77
Alison Byerly
II. EXPANDING THE SUBJECT IN ECOCRITICISM
6. Locating the Uranium Mine:
Place, Multiethnicity, and Environmental Justice in
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 97
James Tarter
7. Landscape in Drag:
The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warer's
The Wide, Wide World ini
Andrea Blair
8. "Space Is a Frame We Map Ourselves In":
The Feminist Geographies of Susan Howe's Frame Structures I3I
Eleanor Hersey
9. Of Whales and Men:
The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy's Environmental Imagination I49
James D. Lilley
1O. Articulating the Cyborg:
An Impure Model for Environmental Revolution 165
Louis H. Palmer III
III. RETHINKING REPRESENTATION AND THE SUBLIME
11. Surveying the Sublime:
Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of Place i8i
Rick Van Noy
12. "Mont Blanc":
Shelley's Sublime Allegory of the Real 207
Aaron Dunckel
13. Vicarious Edification:
Radcliffe and the Sublime 224
James Kirwan
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