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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924
Karen L. Kilcup
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Paperback. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, ""Man's warfare on the trees is terrible."" Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change.
Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. ... Read more
In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, ""Man's warfare on the trees is terrible."" Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change.
Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820345000
SKU
V9780820345000
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About Karen L. Kilcup
Karen L. Kilcup is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Her many books include Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition.
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