Screen LibraryClimate and American literature /
"Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literatu...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge themes in American literature and culture
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| Summary: |
"Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today. It explores how American literature from its inception up until the present engages with the climate, both real and perceived. Climate and American Literature attends to the central place that the climate has historically occupied in virtually all aspects of American life, from public health and medicine, over the organization of the political system and the public sphere, to the culture of sensibility, aesthetics and literary culture. It details American inflections of climate perceptions over time to offer revealing new perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-366) and index. |
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9781108484879 1108484875 9781108705349 1108705340 |
| Index Number: | PS169 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Call Number: | I712.06/C639 |
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The climate history of North America / Climate theories / Climate and civilization / Climate and race / Climate and American Indian literature / Colonial climates / The degeneration thesis / The state of the air in post-Revolutionmary America / The higher latitudes of the American Renaissance / Climate and the American West / Fictions of health after miasma / Naturalism, regionalism, and climate (in)determinism / American modernisms and climatology / Postmodern climates / Frontiers of a shrinking world: recent American climate fiction / Climate and the environmental humanities / The anthropocenic sublime: a critique / Climate and the new materialisms / A match made in hell: climate change and neoliberalism / |