Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decentre the human. Drawing upon invasion biology, McAuley offers transformative ecocritical interpretations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature and highlights the heterarchical nature of empire building. This includes analyses of texts composed by (or about) persons residing at, or just outside, the edges of the British and American Empires, including St Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Cuba, Hawaii and Samoa, which were built around the global transfer of animals and plants. Offering biotic readings of this literature, McAuley highlights the human place in nature and provides practical literary examples of the ways oceans facilitate the confusion of time and place.
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- Utgivningsdatum2025-12-31
- Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
- Vikt488 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures
- Antal sidor320
- FörlagEdinburgh University Press
- ISBN9781399527156
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