Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108845717)

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.

Author: Juliana Chow
ISBN-10: 1108845711
ISBN-13: 9781108845717
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2021
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2022