Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Buell, Lawrence
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Environmental protection in literature. English literature > History and criticism. Environmental policy in literature. Nature conservation in literature. Landscapes in literature. Ecology in literature. Nature in literature.

Table of Contents:

Toxic discourse
The place of place
Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city
Discourses of determinism
Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold
Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales
The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice
Watershed aesthetics.