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Download e-book for kindle: Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature by Geoff Hamilton,Brian Jones

By Geoff Hamilton,Brian Jones

ISBN-10: 0786465417

ISBN-13: 9780786465415

This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a spotlight at the surroundings (broadly outlined as humanity’s usual surroundings), from the invention of the USA in the course of the current. The paintings contains biographical and literary entries on fabric from early explorers and colonists resembling Columbus, Bartolomé de Las Casas and Thomas Harriot; local American construction myths; canonical 18th- and 19th-century works of Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Twain, Dickinson and others; to more moderen figures comparable to Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Stanley Cavell, Rachel Carson, Jon Krakauer and Al Gore. it's intended to supply a synoptic appreciation of ways the very idea of our surroundings has replaced over the last 5 centuries, supplying either a common creation to the subject and a important source for prime tuition and college classes concerned with environmental issues.

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