Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism - Hardcover
by Scott Hess
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009561259ISBN-10:1009561251UPC:9781009561259Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCJDPST354
Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism
During the nineteenth century, the idea of 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott D. Hess explores how those associations defined the modern significance of nature and precipitated the emergence of National Parks and the environmental movement. William Wordsworth's identification with the English Lake District, Henry David Thoreau's with Walden,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009561259ISBN-10:1009561251UPC:9781009561259Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCJDPST354
Hess, Scott: - Scott D. Hess is Professor of English and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where he teaches nineteenth-century transatlantic literature and cultural history and the environmental humanities. He is the author of William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture (University of Virginia...
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