Swamp aesthetics: Environmental experiments by American women from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century

Title: Swamp aesthetics: Environmental experiments by American women from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century
Identifier: d_2009_2013:585f4631ba5c:10927
identifier: 11147
Creator: Parks, Cecily,
Contributor: Joan Richardson
Date: 2011
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: American literature | Environmental studies | Womens studies | Emily Dickinson | experimental writing | Gertrude Stein | Mary Austin | Susan Howe | swamp
Abstract: "Swamp Aesthetics" proposes a theory of the origins of swamp aesthetics in the works of four visionary American women writers---Emily Dickinson, Mary Austin, Gertrude Stein, and Susan Howe---whose non-linear, non-hierarchical texts reflect patterns to be found in that ambiguous and particularly American landscape feature, the swamp. This project delineates new parameters for what constitutes environmental writing from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and places American women writers at its forefront, arguing that these authors find in the swamp a position from which to re-imagine the relationship between the American mind and the natural world.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: English

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