The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture.

1996 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 640
Author(s):  
Marco Portales ◽  
Lawrence Buell
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
Environmental Imagination

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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