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Shades of green : visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Finseth, Ian Frederick
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009]
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. European literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Slavery in literature. Nature in literature. Antislavery movements in literature. American literature > European influences. Slavery > Philosophy. Philosophy of nature.

Table of Contents:

Nature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy
Natural science in early antislavery thought
Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature
Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler
Crèvecoeur's natural contract
Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history
Natural evil and human development
The problem of theodicy
Antebellum natural science
The natural law of free development
Nations of blood
The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany
Of men and mollusks: Emerson's providential biology
Race in the landscape
Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination
Toward an African American georgic
Coda: antislavery pictorialism
Revisiting, reliving, reforming
The geography of the slave narrative
From the garden to the swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oxen and sweet potatoes: Douglass on the land
Epilogue: shadows of green.