Climate and American literature / edited by Michael Boyden.

Call Number
810.9/36
Title
Climate and American literature / edited by Michael Boyden.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge themes in American literature and culture
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
Contents
Climate and its discontents. The climate history of North America -- Climate theories -- Climate and civilization -- Climate and race -- American literary climates. Climate and American Indian literature -- Colonial climates -- The degeneration thesis -- The state of the air in Post-Revolutionmary America -- The higher latitudes of the American Renaissance -- Climate and the American West -- Fictions of health after miasma -- Naturalism, regionalism, and climate (in)determinism -- American modernisms and climatology -- Postmodern climates -- Frontiers of a shrinking world : recent American climate fiction -- New lines of inquiry. Climate and the environmental humanities -- The anthropocenic sublime : a critique -- Climate and the new materialisms -- A match made in hell : climate change and neoliberalism.
Summary
Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today. It explores how American literature from its inception up until the present engages with the climate, both real and perceived. Climate and American Literature attends to the central place that the climate has historically occupied in virtually all aspects of American life, from public health and medicine, over the organization of the political system and the public sphere, to the culture of sensibility, aesthetics and literary culture. It details American inflections of climate perceptions over time to offer revealing new perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Added Author
Boyden, Michael, editor.
Subject
American literature History and criticism.
Literature and society United States History.
Climatic changes in literature.
Multimedia
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Summary
Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today. It explores how American literature from its inception up until the present engages with the climate, both real and perceived. Climate and American Literature attends to the central place that the climate has historically occupied in virtually all aspects of American life, from public health and medicine, over the organization of the political system and the public sphere, to the culture of sensibility, aesthetics and literary culture. It details American inflections of climate perceptions over time to offer revealing new perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
Contents
Climate and its discontents. The climate history of North America -- Climate theories -- Climate and civilization -- Climate and race -- American literary climates. Climate and American Indian literature -- Colonial climates -- The degeneration thesis -- The state of the air in Post-Revolutionmary America -- The higher latitudes of the American Renaissance -- Climate and the American West -- Fictions of health after miasma -- Naturalism, regionalism, and climate (in)determinism -- American modernisms and climatology -- Postmodern climates -- Frontiers of a shrinking world : recent American climate fiction -- New lines of inquiry. Climate and the environmental humanities -- The anthropocenic sublime : a critique -- Climate and the new materialisms -- A match made in hell : climate change and neoliberalism.
Subject
American literature History and criticism.
Literature and society United States History.
Climatic changes in literature.
Multimedia