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Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 623–650.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Alan Ackerman Abstract Catharine E. Beecher’s 1841 A Treatise on Domestic Economy laid the groundwork for the American environmental canon, including Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau and Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson. In conversation with other nineteenth-century American writers...
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Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic Literatures
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Joni Adamson Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism . By Otto Eric C. . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 152 pp. Cloth , $44.95 ; CD , $14.95 . Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic...
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American Literary Environmentalism
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 433.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Literary Environmentalism. By David Mazel. Athens: Univ. of Georgia
Press. 2000. xxv, 198 pp. $40.00.
David Mazel has opened up the ecocritical conversation with American Lit-
erary Environmentalism. His inspiration derives less from Thoreau and John
Muir and more from Judith Butler...
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Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature; Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2005
... to realize a truly national theater. As these studies demonstrate, both the
gestures and the failures are significant, suggesting the need for continued,
thoughtful failures in the ongoing performance of the drama of U.S. national
history.
John Ernest, University of New Hampshire
Environmental...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature; Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Movement
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in preapocalyptic times, while survivors of transatlantic slavery, Indigenous genocide, and nuclear and chemical warfare live in the postapocalyptic. 4 These different temporalities are displayed starkly in On Such a Full Sea , which presents an environmentally degraded world where metropolises are populated...
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World; John Burroughs and the Place of Nature; Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 179–181.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Perrin Warren. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xiii, 266 pp. $ 39.95. Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld . By Lee Rozelle. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. vii, 134 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews
New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory...
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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 634–636.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., extending the range of material that can be read with ecocritical concerns. Fallen Forests traces the long-nineteenth-century women writers’ use of environmental rhetoric to further communitist and activist goals in what we now recognize as resource wars. Lydia Sigourney, Harriet Wilson, Pauline...
View articletitled, Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Writing, 1781–1924 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
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Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Rebecca McWilliams Evans Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times . By Stacy Alaimo . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 242 pp. Cloth, $94.50 ; paper, $27.00 ; e-book available. The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 390–393.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . By Sonya Posmentier . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2017 . xiv, 282. Cloth, $ 49.95 ; e-book, $ 49.95 . Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative . By Alexa Weik von Mossner . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 269. Cloth, $ 149.95...
View articletitled, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Narrative
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for article titled, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Narrative
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Environmental Practice and Early American Literature Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 605–607.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Susan Scott Parrish Environmental Practice and Early American Literature . By Ziser Michael . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . ii , 224 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; e-book, $72.00 . Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics...
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Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 787–814.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Hsuan L. Hsu Abstract This essay considers naturalist and neonaturalist deployments of smell as a means of mapping uneven and potentially toxic atmospheres in the contexts of Progressive Era urbanization and twentieth-century environmental “slow violence.” After showing how the description...
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Nicole M. Merola The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature . By McMillin T. S. . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xviii, 220 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation...
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Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 275–303.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Cristin Ellis Ellis’s essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis—the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion—at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom , the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...
View articletitled, Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Tradition Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language
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From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2005
... provide detailed his-
tory, genealogy (a favorite term of hers), and taxonomy, and a very few useful
analyses.
Peter Hays, University of California, Davis
From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots
of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. By Thomas Hallock. Chapel...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...
View articletitled, Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Justice in American Literature; Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories; Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America; Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2004
... University
The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America. By Dana Phillips.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 300 pp. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $24.95.
Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Litera-
ture. By Ann Ronald. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press...
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“We Don’t Wanna Be Radiated”: Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Lisa Lynch Lynch’s essay explores the divergence between the symbolic imaginary of nuclear power and the imaginative terrain of environmentalism through a look at documentary film about the civilian nuclear industry. Lynch first analyzes several films about US antireactor activism produced...
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Wondrous Strange: Eco-Sickness, Emotion, and The Echo Maker
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Heather Houser Houser’s essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers’s novel, The Echo Maker . The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting...
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“Because It Never Dies”: Archipelagic Time in from unincorporated territory [ lukao ]
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American Literature 11934304.
Published: 04 July 2025
...Jessica Klimoff Abstract Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [ lukao ] , the fourth volume in his poetry series titled from unincorporated territory , tells overlapping narratives of Guåhan ’s (Guam’s) colonial and environmental histories, mixed with his speaker’s memories and family...
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