Ecocriticism and the idea of culture [electronic resource] : biology and the bildungsroman / Helena Feder.

Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in her examination of works by Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Jamaica Kincaid. She dramatizes Western culture's own awareness of the instability of the binary of nature...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Feder, Helena
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Subjects:	Bildungsromans > History and criticism. Ecology in literature. Nature in literature. Bildungsromans. Criticism, interpretation, etc.