Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924

by Karen L. Kilcup

Book Overview

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820345008
• ISBN13: 9780820345000
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"