MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02328cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2008010916
003 DLC
005 20090428095855.0
008 080310s2009 gauaf b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008010916
015 $aGBA8E0191$2bnb
016 7 $a014853712$2Uk
020 $a9780820328652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0820328650 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn213375869
035 $a(OCoLC)213375869$z(OCoLC)225874018
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dCDX$dIAY$dBWX$dUKM$dIXA$dDLC
043 $an-us---$ae------
050 00 $aPS186$b.F56 2009
082 00 $a810.9/355$222
100 1 $aFinseth, Ian Frederick.
245 10 $aShades of green :$bvisions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860 /$cIan Frederick Finseth.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$cc2009.
300 $axi, 348 p., [8] p. of plates :$bcol. ill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-339) and index.
505 0 $aNature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy -- Natural science in early antislavery thought -- Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature -- Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler -- Crèvecoeur's natural contract -- Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history -- Natural evil and human development -- The problem of theodicy -- Antebellum natural science -- The natural law of free development -- Nations of blood -- The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany -- Of men and mollusks: Emerson's providential biology -- Race in the landscape -- Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination -- Toward an African American georgic -- Coda: antislavery pictorialism -- Revisiting, reliving, reforming -- The geography of the slave narrative -- From the garden to the swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Oxen and sweet potatoes: Douglass on the land -- Epilogue: shadows of green.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEuropean literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 0 $aNature in literature.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xEuropean influences.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aPhilosophy of nature.