Beschreibung
OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism.
Autorenporträt
LANCE NEWMAN is Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, USA, where he teaches courses in early American literature, environmental literature, and creative writing. He is co-editor of Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867, and Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in American and British Romanticism. His scholarly essays have appeared in New England Quarterly, American Literature, Romanticism on the Net, The Concord Saunterer, Nineteenth Century Prose, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
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Springer Verlag GmbH
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
