The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
ISBN-10
0674258622
ISBN-13
9780674258624
Series
The Environmental Imagination
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
586
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Lawrence Buell

Description

With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell offers an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.

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