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With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in "The Environmental Imagination". With Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone, Buell gives us an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides an understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Environmental Imagination
• Subtitle: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
• Author: Lawrence Buell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600
• EAN: 9780674258624
• ISBN: 0674258622
• ID: 04635883
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 974 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 156 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 1996

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