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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | 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 and culture, making a timely intervention in the ongoing culture-nature debate, bridging the gap between cultural theory and biologically grounded research. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (179 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315578644 1315578646 1317146417 9781317146414 1317146409 9781317146407 1409401588 9781409401582 |
| Language: | English. |