Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.

✦ Table of Contents

04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
05.0_pp_v_v_Contents
06.0_pp_vi_vi_Figures
07.0_pp_vii_x_Acknowledgments
08.0_pp_1_30_Introduction
09.0_pp_31_68_Sketching_American_Species_Birds_Weeds_and_Trees_in_Audubon_Cooper_and_Pokagon
10.0_pp_69_97_Because_I_seeNew_Englandly_Emily_Dickinson_and_the_Specificity_of_Disjunction
11.0_pp_98_141_Coral_of_Life_James_McCune_Smith_and_the_Diasporic_Structure_of_Racial_Uplift
12.0_pp_142_182_Thoreaus_Dispersion_Writing_a_Natural_History_of_Casualties
13.0_pp_183_190_Afterword_andamp
14.0_pp_191_222_Notes
15.0_pp_223_224_Index
16.0_pp_225_228_Recent_Books_in_This_Series_continued_from_page_ii

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