{"product_id":"fallen-forests-emotion-embodiment-and-ethics-in-american-womens-environmental-writing-1781-1924-paperback","title":"Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren L. Kilcup\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, \"Man's warfare on the trees is terrible.\" Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, \u003ci\u003e Fallen Forests\u003c\/i\u003e shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFallen Forests \u003c\/i\u003econtributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. Karen L. Kilcup rejects prior critical emphases on sentimentalism to show how women writers have drawn on their literary emotional intelligence to raise readers' consciousness about social and environmental issues. She also critiques ecocriticism's idealizing tendency, which has elided women's complicity in agendas that depart from today's environmental orthodoxies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnlike previous ecocritical works, \u003ci\u003eFallen Forests \u003c\/i\u003eincludes marginalized texts by African American, Native American, Mexican American, working-class, and non-Protestant women. Kilcup also enlarges ecocriticism's genre foundations, showing how Cherokee oratory, travel writing, slave narrative, diary, polemic, sketches, novels, poetry, and expos  intervene in important environmental debates.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKAREN L. KILCUP is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eFallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia), \u003ci\u003eTeaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSoft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 9.03 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757863698720,"sku":"9780820345000","price":82.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f44ca3751c93242641183d97b0bf347e.webp?v=1780113448","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fallen-forests-emotion-embodiment-and-ethics-in-american-womens-environmental-writing-1781-1924-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}