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- Considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers
- Combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics
- Explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying—restorying—restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines how their writings on nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation, and restoration have variously inspired and been translated into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) at Walden Pond, John Muir (1838–1914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) at his family’s Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890–1998) in the Everglades, and Edward Abbey (1927–1989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics in a commentary on considering (and developing) environmental literature’s place in conversations on restoration ecology, ecological restoration, and rewilding.
Keywords
- environmental humanities
- environmental history
- ecological restoration
- environment writing
- US nature and environment writing
- cultural geography
- C20th American literature
- rewilding
- literary criticism
- C19th American literature
- American environmental literature
- restoration politics
- environmental literature
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Laura Smith
About the author
Laura Smith is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, U.K. She works across cultural geography and the environmental humanities, with research interests in ecological restoration and rewilding, the history and conservation of U.S. public lands, American literature, and environmental protest and activism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition
Book Subtitle: A Rewilding of American Letters
Authors: Laura Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86148-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86147-6Published: 12 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86150-6Published: 13 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86148-3Published: 12 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 348
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Environmental Geography, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Cultural Studies