Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Author "Buell, Lawrence"
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American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon
Buell, Lawrence (Oxford University Press, 1992) -
American Pastoral Ideology Reappraised
Buell, Lawrence (Oxford University Press, 1989) -
Anthropocene Panic: Contemporary Ecocriticism and the Issue of Human Numbers
Buell, Lawrence (2016)Environmental humanists rightly believe they have valuable contributions to make to rethinking and redressing Anthropocene Age excess. Ecocriticism’s recent maturation as an interdiscipline has put it in a stronger position ... -
Antipodal Propinquities? Environmental (Mis)Perceptions in American and Australian Literary History
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Circling the Spheres: A Dialogue
Buell, Lawrence (Duke University Press, 1998)Presents a dialogue focusing on the notion of separate spheres in American literary history. Identification of women writers in the antebellum period; Examination of literary ethnography traditions; View on the development ... -
Colony Writing: Creative Community in the Age of Revolt
Roberts, Kathryn Susan (2016-05-18)This dissertation studies the impact of a form of literary patronage, domestic writers’ colonies, on U.S. literary production in first half of the twentieth century. I discuss Provincetown, Massachusetts; Taos and Santa ... -
Downwardly Mobile for Conscience's Sake: Voluntary Simplicity from Thoreau to Lily Bart
Buell, Lawrence (Oxford University Press, 2005) -
Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism
Buell, Lawrence (Duke University Press, 1975) -
Environmental Writing for Children: A Selected Reconnaissance of Heritages, Emphases, Horizons
Buell, Lawrence; Garrard, Greg (Oxford University Press, 2014)This article analyzes representative topoi or traditions emanating from the so-called golden age of children’s writing in the late Victorian era that feature encounters with the physical environment. It traces the emergence ... -
The Extra: Literary History Without Sexism? Feminist Studies and Canonical Reconception
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Literature and environment
Buell, Lawrence; Heise, Ursula K.; Thornber, Karen Laura (Annual Reviews, 2011)Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and human-environment interactions. The modern environmentalist movement as it emerged first in the late-nineteenth century ... -
Melville and the question of American decolonization
Buell, Lawrence (Duke University Press, 1992)Discusses Herman Melville's book <i>Billy Budd</i> concerning its sources and how it unfolds in Melville's life and work. Signs of cultural deference in the biographical record; The publication history of <i>Typee</i>; The ... -
New Directions in (Transnational) American Literature Studies
Buell, Lawrence (School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, 2009)Never has there been a better moment for foreign scholars outside the English-speaking world to engage in American literature studies. American literature studies is increasingly studied worldwide and the contributions of ... -
The New England Renaissance and American Literary Ethnocentrism
Buell, Lawrence (Cambridge University Press, 1985)Just as patriot orators invoked the spirit of Puritanism in their remonstrances against British tyranny, just as the nineteenth-century cult of Pilgrimism taught all America to look back upon the Pilgrim fathers as everyone's ... -
Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church
Weimer, David E. (2016-02-29)Even as the Church of England lost ground to political dissent and New England gradually disestablished its state churches early in the nineteenth century, writers on both sides of the debates about church establishments ... -
Recovering Green in Bronzeville: An Environmental and Cultural History of the African American Great Migration to Chicago, 1915-1940
McCammack, Brian James (2013-02-14)Between 1915 and 1940, millions of African Americans migrated from the South to cities in the North. “Recovering Green in Bronzeville” examines the ways in which these migrants experienced, perceived, talked about, valued, ... -
State-Funded Fictions: The NEA and the Making of American Literature After 1965
Doherty, Margaret (2015-05-18)This dissertation studies the effects of a patronage institution, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program, on American literary production in the postwar era. Though American writers had long cultivated ... -
The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage: The Structure of an American Cult
Buell, Lawrence (Duke University Press, 1989)Examines the forms of public reverence for American author Henry David Thoreau. Testimony of author John Muir; Focus on the theme of pilgrimage; Emphasis on the concept of Transcendental Concord. -
Toxic Discourse
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Transcendentalist Catalogue Rhetoric: Vision Versus Form
Buell, Lawrence (Duke University Press, 1968)