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KlappentextNichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.
ZusammenfassungCOURSE ADOPTION INTEREST: Our author Jim McKusick is considering requiring all incoming students at Davidson Honors College to adopt the book, roughly 2000 copies. We also have significant course adoption interest from smaller courses.TIMELY: Combines scholarly material with an unique argument for a new way of interacting with the natural world. Fits in well with current "green" conversation.WIDELY REVIEWED:Sierra Club, The Green Life: Book Review - Both critically and artfully, Nichols explores how our conceptions of nature have derived from Enlightenment-era ideas (humans and nature are separate) and Romantic poetry (humans and nature are connected). ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment "Combining the scientific and the humanistic, the scholarly and the experiential, Nichols writes in a wonderfully consistent and engaging voice that both unifies the book and makes it an unusual pleasure to read."Choice "With this lyrical, insightful book on urbanature (emphasis on the first syllable), Nichols (Dickinson College) makes a significant contribution to the evolving field of eco-criticism and to the prestigious 'Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters' series. Combining literary, anecdotal, and philosophical perspectives, this invaluable book crossbreeds political, spiritual, scientific, and aesthetic elements within the outworn dichotomy of town and country. Summing Up: Essential."Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies "Nichols offers a subtle, but significant new way of understanding many of the central debates in the nineteenth century, most notably around evolution, species, and extinction, and how they relate to pressing global concerns."The Wordsworth Circle "Nichols weaves together academic and 'personal' writing, memoir, intellectual history, ecological theory, literary criticism, and close observation of 'urbanatural' species of many kinds. Nichols emulates some of the great nature writers of the past Thoreau, Leopold, Abbey all leap to mind in following a loose calendrical organization, beginning (as does Walden) in March and progressing through the natural year. It may seem as though Nichols attempts to do too much in one book, yet it works, beautifully. One reason is the sheer tensile strength of several key strands the cultural history is definitive, the asides on Romantic and contemporary science are brilliant, and the natural observation is frequently breathtaking. This is an inspiring book by a seasoned scholar, at once mature and adventurous, wide ranging and tightly focused on a crucially important theme."Review 19: "There is no question that Nichols has written a wondrous book, innovative in its merging of genres, richly veined with intellectual history, literary criticism, and a passionate vision for the future of environmentalism."
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-230-10267-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum02.02.2011
Auflage2011
Seiten230 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht495 g
IllustrationenXXIII, 230 p. 6 illus.
Artikel-Nr.12765614
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