Nineteenth-century American literature and the discourse of natural history[electronic resource]
- 作者: Chow, Juliana.
- 出版: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022.
- 稽核項: ix, 224 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- 標題: Biogeography , Environmentalism in literature. , History and criticism. , Human ecology in literature. , American literature , Ecocriticism. , Biogeography United States -- History -- 19th century. , American literature 19th century -- History and criticism. , Fragmentation (Philosophy) in literature. , History
- ISBN: 1108964923 , 9781108964920
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- 摘要: 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.
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- 系統號: 005331438
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"American cultural technologies of the early nineteenth century shaped Nature and the synonymous "native" in contradictory ways: celebrating the wilderness but then transforming it by cultivation, mourning lost "natives" (both people and species) while also naturalizing the succession of new Euro-American settlers. Settler colonial geopolitics understood its own territorial claims in association with the retreats, migrations, and expansions of select species populations: cattle replacing American bison or Euro-Americans replacing Indians on the western frontier. In this way, Euro-American descendants of settlers who then considered themselves "natives" could be the natural stewards to "preserve" or "reform" wild remnants of nature while also identifying against the encroachment of the Old World. Technological arts as varied as moving panoramas and picturesque sketches depicted and enacted civilization overtaking the wild frontier through visual tours. This chapter explores how the sketch fits into technologies of seeing accompanying American settler colonialism and points to moments when it suggests ecological processes of ongoing passage rather than terminal extinction or succession"--
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