TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buell,Lawrence
TI  - Writing for an endangered world: literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond 
SN  - 0674004493
AV  - PS169 .E25 B84 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Ecology in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Environmental policy in literature
KW  - Environmental protection in literature
KW  - Landscapes in literature
KW  - Nature conservation in literature
KW  - Nature in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-340) and index; Toxic discourse -- The place of place -- Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city -- Discourses of determinism -- Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold -- Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales -- The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice -- Watershed aesthetics; Also issued online
N2  - Offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, this book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape
ER  -