| Description |
vi, 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Urban ecocriticism: an introduction / Michael Bennett and David W. Teague -- The social claim on urban ecology / Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) -- London here and now: walking, streets, and urban environments in English poetry from Donne to Gay / Gary Roberts -- "All things natural are strange": Audre Lorde, urban nature, and cultural place / Kathleen R. Wallace -- Inculcating wildness: ecocomposition, nature writing, and the regreening of the American suburb / Terrell Dixon -- Writers and dilettantes: Central Park and the literary origins of Antebellum urban nature / Adam W. Sweeting -- Postindustrial park or bourgeois playground? preservation and urban restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park / Richard Heyman -- Boyz in the woods: urban wilderness in American cinema / Andrew Light -- Central High and the suburban landscape: the ecology of white flight / David W. Teague -- Manufacturing the ghetto: anti-urbanism and the spatialization of race / Michael Bennett -- An ecofeminist perspective on the urban environment / Catherine Villanueva Gardner -- "You make me feel like a natural woman": the political economy of contemporary cosmetics discourse / Laura L. Sullivan --Darwin's city, or Life underground: evolution, progress, and the shapes of things to come / Joanne Gottlieb -- Nature in the apartment: humans, pets, and the value of incommensurability / David R. Shumway -- Cosmology in the casino: simulacra of nature in the interiorized wilderness / Michael P. Branch. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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City and town life in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Popular culture.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Added Author |
Bennett, Michael, 1962-
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Teague, David W. (David Warfield), 1964-
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| ISBN |
0816519471 (acid-free paper) |
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0816519498 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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