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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 June 2002
...), Mazel links Park Ser-
vice politics to the culture wars of the eighties and nineties. Through this
alignment, we begin to see how the environment itself has been racialized.
Literary environmentalism, as it is described in this study, ‘‘is a process
of rendering natural landscape into disciplinary...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 429–431.
Published: 01 June 2003
... still held ‘‘in bondage’’ to an
older nation-centered and humanist historicism.
Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature.By...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 219–220.
Published: 01 March 2000
... to twentieth-century concerns over product liability and
environmental hazards), Goodman traces developingconcepts of negligence
that began to be considered in literature before their legal encoding. In addi-
tion...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 899–901.
Published: 01 December 2004
... never
be a real, political opposition
Anna Brickhouse, University of Colorado, Boulder
Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the
Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ.
of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 705–731.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and use of the environment are culturally and historically variable. Emphasizing the “effects of specific landscapes on our consciousness” and willing to “recode” past events in light of his (or his narrator’s) environmental perceptions, Vollmann ( 2015 : 1272) both vaunts place-based knowledge...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 637–640.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Heather Houser Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment . By Ybarra Priscilla Solis . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press . 2016 . xx, 216 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change . By Trexler Adam...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 390–393.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of environmental experience. John Claborn’s Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 offers a textual prehistory of environmental justice, showing how African American writings that focus primarily on black empowerment simultaneously evince an “emergent sense...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Dana Phillips Duke University Press 2006 Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present . By John Gatta. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 291 pp. Paper, $24.95. Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lynne Feeley 204 American Literature
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. By Stephanie LeMenager.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2014. xi, 263 pp. Cloth, $53.00; e-book available.
Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect. By Heather
Houser. New York...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
Published: 01 June 2020
... they never became environmentalists, they experimented with environmental writing and politics. By recovering these experiments, this article shows how media produce—rather than simply portray—lands and waters. Ultimately it tells the story of the borderlands as a series of struggles over what environments...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 634–636.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Margaret Konkol Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Schuster Joshua . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2015 . xv, 216 pp. Paper , $39.95 ; e-book, $39.95 . Fallen Forests: Emotion...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., even Emily Dickinson and
Herman Melville—but not Poe. Lawrence Buell pointedly excludes
Poe from the canon of ecocentric US authors outlined in The Environ-
mental Imagination (1995), and this because, in his estimation, Poe
rejects Usher’s environmental pantheism as “a form of madness...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
... fiction is an understudied subgenre of the black urban narrative that, when surveyed for its historical context, phenomenological perspectives, and diverse literary style, widens literary urbanism’s representation of the structure of feeling within and regarding the built environment of urban space...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 827–853.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) as a literary act of witnessing that diagnoses the devastating socioecological footprint of globalized cybercapitalism. Employing Marxist and ecocritical accounts of materiality and environment as analytic categories, Merola...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Mary Kuhn This essay, by paying attention to botanical language, reveals how Stowe's environmental sensibility affects her racial politics and abolitionist strategies. The theories of plant growth and vitality she draws on as her career develops refute the strict classification and cultivation...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
... varied scales of care at the level of form, by moving from individual stories that are the typical subject of literary realism to a grand vision of the webbed planetary systems—the environment, the internet, the global economy—in which they are enmeshed. This essay argues that, read through the lens...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the frontier imaginary championed by early cyberspace adherents. If the fear of overdevelopment led to the desire for—and in some cases, the construction of—a new, virgin environment, the Sprawl trilogy dismantles this frontier imaginary by showing how cyberspace magnifies the environmental emergency...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in which postplantation spaces in the US South are imbued with temporal slippages such that past and present meet through the built environment. Tracing the plantation’s environmental and infrastructural presence in the Gulf Coast and throughout the US South, this essay argues that the plantation’s...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 169–183.
Published: 01 March 2023
... calls for and models a Black existentialist reading practice that is in productive tension with the prescriptive protocols of social protest literature—then and now—and invites us to read for choices within situations rather than determining environments or ontological foreclosures. shane.vogel...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to determine deservingness of US citizenship. This trio of texts shows how school systems are mechanisms of coercive assimilation that reproduce a ranking regime wherein racial others are excluded or subordinated. Even as school environments can silence, they can also be safe havens for amplifying the human...
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