A Natural History of Nature Writing by Frank Stewart, and: The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell

1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-79
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Imagination

scholarly journals Imagining Rivers: The Aesthetics, History, and Politics of American Waterways. A Conversation Between Lawrence Buell and Christof Mauch

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Lawrence Buell ◽  
Christof Mauch
Keyword(s):  
Nature Writing ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
Environmental Writing ◽  
Environmental Criticism ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Imagination

This contribution features a transatlantic conversation between Christof Mauch, environmental historian and Americanist from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and Lawrence Buell, literary scholar and “pioneer” of Ecocriticism from Harvard University. Buell’s The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995) marked the first major attempt to understand the green tradition of environmental writing, nonfiction as well as fiction, beginning in colonial times and continuing into the present day. With Thoreau’s Walden as a touchstone, this seminal book provided an account of the place of nature in the history of Western thought. Other highly acclaimed monographs include Writing for an Endangered World (2001), a book that brought industrialized and exurban landscapes into conversation with one other, and The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2009), which provides a critical survey of the ecocritical movement since the 1970s, with an eye to the future of the discipline.    

A Natural History of Nature Writing

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Stan Goldman ◽  
Frank Stewart ◽  
Lawrence Buell
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
History Of

WHERE IS VICTORIAN ECOCRITICISM?

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 877-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Oak Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
Nineteenth Century American Literature ◽  
Environmental Imagination ◽  
Point Of Departure

The most striking thingabout reviewing the field of Victorian ecocriticism is that there is so little of it. This relative absence is all the more perplexing given that ecocritical work on Romanticism and nineteenth-century American literature is so profuse. Thoreau and Wordsworth remain the most-discussed authors in a field that was in many respects inaugurated by Jonathan Bate'sRomantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition(1991) and Lawrence Buell'sThe Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture(1995). Romanticism remains the point of departure for some of the most influential studies in the field, including those like Timothy Morton'sEcology Without Nature(2009) that challenge many of its core precepts. Meanwhile, ecocriticism has expanded to include many other periods and regions, with collections ranging fromThe Ecocritical Shakespeare(2011) toPostcolonial Ecologies(2011), and unsurprisingly, a strong turn toward the contemporary.

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