Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0205229352
- ISBN-13
- 9780205229352
- Series
- Literature and the Environment
- Category
- American literature
- Pages
- 440
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- Authors
- Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic, John P. O'Grady
Description
Exploring our relationship to nature and the role literature can play in shaping a culture responsive to environmental realities, this thematic, multi-genre anthology includes early writers such as John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Mary Austin, contemporary luminaries such as Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams, and newer voices such as Michael Pollan and Sandra Steingraber.
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