The Gentle Subversive
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 September 2007
- ISBN 9780195172478
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 172x121x14 mm
- Weight 232 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 illus. 0
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Short description:
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation—including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry—and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book.
Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women's struggle to find a voice in society.
Long description:
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation—including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry—and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book.
Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children's magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the
genesis of her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, the incredible success of The Sea Around Us (a New York Times bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her "poison book": Silent Spring. The author contends that despite Carson's demure, lady-like demeanor,
she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, women, and other concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle with cancer.
Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women's struggle to find a voice in society.
The author wonderfully weaves literary interpretation, intimate biographical detail, and sociopolitical observations into a new narrative on the life and influence of Rachel Carson.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Prologue
1. Spring: Sense of Wonder: Under the Sea-Wind
2. Summer: Florescence: The Sea Around Us
3. Fall: The Fullness of Life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT
4. Winter: The Poison Book and the Dark Season of Vindication
Epilogue: Rachel Carson: The Legacy
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
