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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Juliana Chow, ca. 20./21. Jh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.The book illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival.It 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.
Who reads Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Juliana Chow, ca. 20./21. Jh
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108990660
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Literary Fiction
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