The environmental imagination : Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in "The Environmental Imagination". With Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone, Buell gives us an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides an understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.

著者

Buell, Lawrence

出版社

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

発売日

1995年1月発売

価格

価格未定（税込・書誌情報提供：openBD）

ISBN

9780674258617

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