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Title:

The nature of cities : ecocriticism and urban environments / edited by Michael Bennett and David W. Teague.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

vi, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Environmental literature--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Ecology in literature
Popular culture.
Urban ecology

Other Authors:

Bennett, Michael, 1962-
Teague, David W. (David Warfield), 1964-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Urban ecocriticism: an introduction / Michael Bennett and David W. Teague -- The social claim on urban ecology / Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) -- London here and now: walking, streets, and urban environments in English poetry from Donne to Gay / Gary Roberts -- "All things natural are strange": Audre Lorde, urban nature, and cultural place / Kathleen R. Wallace -- Inculcating wildness: ecocomposition, nature writing, and the regreening of the American suburb / Terrell Dixon -- Writers and dilettantes: Central Park and the literary origins of Antebellum urban nature / Adam W. Sweeting -- Postindustrial park or bourgeois playground? preservation and urban restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park / Richard Heyman -- Boyz in the woods: urban wilderness in American cinema / Andrew Light -- Central High and the suburban landscape: the ecology of white flight / David W. Teague -- Manufacturing the ghetto: anti-urbanism and the spatialization of race / Michael Bennett -- An ecofeminist perspective on the urban environment / Catherine Villanueva Gardner -- "You make me feel like a natural woman": the political economy of contemporary cosmetics discourse / Laura L. Sullivan --Darwin's city, or Life underground: evolution, progress, and the shapes of things to come / Joanne Gottlieb -- Nature in the apartment: humans, pets, and the value of incommensurability / David R. Shumway -- Cosmology in the casino: simulacra of nature in the interiorized wilderness / Michael P. Branch.

ISBN:

9780816519491 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816519498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816519477 (alk. paper)
0816519471 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41039745

LCCN:

99006284

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)