| Description |
xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-289) and index. |
| Contents |
Gender, genus, and genre : women, science, and nature writing in early America / Daniel J. Philippon -- Sentimental ecology : Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural hours / Richard M. Magee -- "Appropriated waters" : Austin's revision of Thoreau in The land of little rain / Matthew Bolinder -- "Recounting" the land : Mary Austin and early twentieth-century narratives of nature / Carol E. Dickson -- Gender and genre : a new perspective on nineteenth-century women's nature writing / Marcia B. Littenberg -- The harvester and the natural bounty of Gene Stratton-Porter / Cheryl Birkelo -- Willa Cather as nature writer : a cry in the wilderness / Mary R. Ryder -- "That Florida flavor" : nature and culture in Zora Neale Hurston's work for the Federal Writer's Project / Valerie Levy -- "A happy, rural seat of various views" : the ecological spirit in Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs and the Dunnett Landing stories / Kelly L. Richardson -- The best way is the simplest : Florence Merriam and popular ornithology / Jen Hill -- Writing the swamp : Marjory Stoneman Douglas and The Everglades : river of grass / Michael P. Branch -- The animal anthropology of Sally Carrighar / Suzanne Ross -- A view of her own : the garden as text / Tamara Fritze -- Tending the southern vernacular garden : Elizabeth Lawrence and the Market bulletin / Karen Cole -- Linda Hasselstrom : the woman rancher as nature writer / Rena Sanderson -- The land as consciousness : ecological being and the movement of words in the works of Leslie Marmon Silko / Karen E. Waldron -- A new mestiza primer : borderlands philosophy in the children's books of Gloria Anzaldúa / Tiffany Ana López with Phillip Serrato -- Stalking a prayer : crossings of the hunter and the shaman in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Jenny Emery Davidson -- Telling news of the tainted land : environmental justice fiction by women / Annie Merrill Ingram. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History.
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Natural history literature -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Thomas S.
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De Wolfe, Elizabeth A., 1961-
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| ISBN |
1584650974 alkaline paper |
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1584650982 paperback alkaline paper |
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