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The Environmental Imagination : Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
The Environmental Imagination Thoreau Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture Author:Lawrence Buell 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. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the pl... more »ace of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.« less