Shades of green
Subtitle: visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860
By: Ian Frederick Finseth.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780820328652
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Nature in literature; Antislavery movements in literature; American literature -- European influences; Slavery -- Philosophy; Philosophy of nature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy; title: Natural science in early antislavery thought; title: Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature; title: Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler; title: Crèvecoeur's natural contract; title: Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history; title: Natural evil and human development; title: The problem of theodicy; title: Antebellum natural science; title: The natural law of free development; title: Nations of blood; title: The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany; title: Of men and mollusks: Emerson's providential biology; title: Race in the landscape; title: Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination; title: Toward an African American georgic; title: Coda: antislavery pictorialism; title: Revisiting, reliving, reforming; title: The geography of the slave narrative; title: From the garden to the swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: Oxen and sweet potatoes: Douglass on the land; title: Epilogue: shadows of green.