Ecosublime
Subtitle: environmental awe and terror from new world to oddworld
By: Lee Rozelle.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780817314927
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Nature in literature.; Environmental literature -- United States -- History and criticism.; Conservation of natural resources in literature.; Environmental protection in literature.; Philosophy of nature in literature.; Wilderness areas in literature.; Ecology in literature.; Ecocriticism.
Description: "Focusing on a variety of literary works and cultural artifacts, Ecosublime explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America." "In each instance, Rozelle finds evidence that the ecosublime - nature experienced as an instance of wonder and fear - profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world, America's increasingly anti-ecological trajectory, and the ascendance of a post-natural landscape."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.