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Nature and Literary Studies

Part of Cambridge Critical Concepts

Editors:
Peter Remien, Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho
Scott Slovic, University of Idaho

Peter Remien, Scott Slovic, Rebecca Davis, Terry Gifford, Debbie Lee, Brent Dawson, Mary Thomas Crane, Ashton Nichols, Marc Cladis, Michele Speitz, Samantha Harvey, Rayson K. Alex, Philip Aghoghovwia, Timothy Sweet, Ken Hiltner, Greta Gaard, John Gamber, Michael Lundblad, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Erin James, Lai-Tze Fan, Pramod K. Nayar, Serenella Iovino

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Date Published: August 2022
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108836760

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Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of leading scholars of a variety of critical approaches, historical periods, and cultural traditions, the book examines nature's philosophical, theological, and scientific origins in literature, as well as how literary representations of this concept evolved in response to colonialism, industrialization, and new forms of scientific knowledge. Surveying nature's diverse applications in twenty-first-century literary studies and critical theory, the volume seeks to reconcile nature's ideological baggage with its fundamental role in fostering appreciation of nonhuman being and agency. Including chapters on wilderness, pastoral, gender studies, critical race theory, and digital literature, the book is a key resource for students and professors seeking to understand nature's role in the environmental humanities.
- Provides an overview of nature's historical evolution across a range of periods
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of nature in literature with focus on literature's practical and ethical engagement with the world
- Supplies an accessible and compressive overview of how scholars in various branches of the environmental humanities conceptualize nature
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- Date Published: August 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108836760
- length: 438 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction: the Nature of Literature Peter Remien and Scott Slovic
Part I. Origins:
1. The book of nature Rebecca Davis
2. Pastoral Terry Gifford
3. Wilderness Debbie Lee
4. Lucretian materialism Brent Dawson
5. Natural philosophy Mary Thomas Crane
6. Natural history Ashton Nichols
Part II. Development:
7. Romantic nature Marc Cladis
8. The sublime Michele Speitz
9. Toward a transatlantic philosophy of nature Samantha Harvey
10. Indigenous naturecultures Rayson K. Alex
11. Postcolonial nature Philip Aghoghovwia
12. Extinction Timothy Sweet
13. Nature in the Anthropocene Ken Hiltner
Part III. Applications:
14. Nature, gender, sexuality Greta Gaard
15. Nature and race John Gamber
16. The nature of animality Michael Lundblad
17. Cultivating nature Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
18. Narrating nature Erin James
19. Digital nature Lai-Tze Fan
20. Toxic nature Pramod K. Nayar
21. Messages from within Serenella Iovino.
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Editors
Peter Remien, Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho
Peter Remien is an Associate Professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho. His recent book The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature (2019), published by Cambridge University Press, traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural philosophy.
Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho. He was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and edited the journal ISLE for twenty-five years. His many books include Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing (1992) and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (2019).
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Peter Remien, Scott Slovic, Rebecca Davis, Terry Gifford, Debbie Lee, Brent Dawson, Mary Thomas Crane, Ashton Nichols, Marc Cladis, Michele Speitz, Samantha Harvey, Rayson K. Alex, Philip Aghoghovwia, Timothy Sweet, Ken Hiltner, Greta Gaard, John Gamber, Michael Lundblad, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Erin James, Lai-Tze Fan, Pramod K. Nayar, Serenella Iovino