Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History Author: Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 290 Illustrations and other contents: Worked examples or Exercises Language: English ISBN: 9781108845717 Categories: , , ,

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.

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Author Biography

Juliana Chow is a scholar of American literature and the environment and feminist science studies; and she has published both academic and creative writing. She is on the board of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) and has held a research fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society.