Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 23 October 2025
- ISBN 9781108964920
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Weight 392 g
- Language English 698
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Short description:
This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological concepts of dispersal.
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.
'Recommended.' T. Bonner Jr, Choice
Table of Contents:
Introduction. Diminishment: Partial Readings in the Casualties of Natural History; 1. Sketching American Species: Birds, Weeds, and Trees in Audubon, Cooper, and Pokagon; 2. "Because I see - New Englandly - ": Emily Dickinson and the Specificity of Disjunction; 3. Coral of Life: James McCune Smith and the Diasporic Structure of Racial Uplift; 4. Thoreau's Dispersion: Writing a Natural History of Casualties.
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