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“tina gianquitto”

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  • America's Darwin

    Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture

    by Tina Gianquitto, Lydia Fisher, Paul Ohler, Kimberly Hamlin, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Carol Anelli, Jeff Walker, Nicole Merola, Gregory Eiselein0, Melanie Dawson1, Lilian Carswell2, Karen Lentz Madison3, R.D. Madison4, Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter5, Heike Schaefer6 ...
    While much has been written about the impact of Darwin’s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin’s theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America’s Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin’s works ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Coming into Contact

    Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice

    by Bruce Allen, James Barilla, Michael Cohen, Tina Gianquitto, Robert T. Hayashi, Tim Lindgren, Anthony Lioi, Daniel Martin, David Mazel, Onno Oerlemans, Amy Patrick, Lee Schweninger, Angela Waldie, Jeff Walker, Laura Dassow Walls, Jennifer Wheat ...
    A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Good Observers of Nature

    American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885

    by Tina Gianquitto ...
    In "Good Observers of Nature" Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experiences of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences.Many women writers of this period used the natural world as a platform for discussing issues of domesticity, education, and the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • An Urchin in the Storm

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  • The Environmental Imagination

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  • Romantic Ecocriticism

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

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  • Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature

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  • Parlor Ponds

    The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970

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    Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850–1970 examines the myriad cultural meanings of the American home aquarium during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and argues that the home aquarium provided its enthusiasts with a potent tool for managing the challenges of historical change, from urbanization to globalization. The tank could be a window to an alien world, a ... Read more

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