Book ID: CBB001420306

Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781--1924 (2013)

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Kilcup, Karen L (Author)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xv + 504 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. Karen L. Kilcup rejects prior critical emphases on sentimentalism to show how women writers have drawn on their literary emotional intelligence to raise readers' consciousness about social and environmental issues. She also critiques ecocriticism's idealizing tendency, which has elided women's complicity in agendas that depart from today's environmental orthodoxies. Unlike previous ecocritical works, Fallen Forests includes marginalized texts by African American, Native American, Mexican American, working-class, and non-Protestant women. Kilcup also enlarges ecocriticism's genre foundations, showing how Cherokee oratory, travel writing, slave narrative, diary, polemic, sketches, novels, poetry, and expose intervene in important environmental debates

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Review Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia (2014) Review of "Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781--1924". Environmental History (pp. 389-391). unapi

Review Warren, James Perrin (2014) Review of "Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781--1924". Journal of American History (p. 282). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sparks, Randy J.
Claudia Jeanne Ford
Willoughby, Christopher D. E.
Sivils, Matthew Wynn
Ruffin, Herbert G.
Stambaugh, Michael C.
Concepts
African Americans and science
African Americans
Science and race
Environmental history
Science and literature
Native American civilization and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic world
Silicon Valley (California)
Oklahoma (U.S.)
North America
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