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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108990660
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990660
Series:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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Book description

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.

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‘Recommended.’

T. Bonner Jr Source: Choice

‘… offers a model for seeing, describing, and representing the natural world that has the potential to inspire future scholarship that is similarly attentive to the partial, the transitional, and the seemingly inconsequential.’

Juliane Braun Source: American Literary History

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