Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

Name: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 238
Release Date:: 2025-10-23
Publication Date:: 2025-10-23
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1108964923
ISBN13:: 9781108964920
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 393 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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