The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

by Lawrence Burll and Lawrence Buell

Book Overview

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674258622
• ISBN13: 9780674258624
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"