Ecocriticism and the idea of culture : biology and the bildungsroman /
Feder, Helena,
Ecocriticism and the idea of culture : biology and the bildungsroman / Helena Feder. - 1 online resource (188 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, biology and the idea of culture -- Candide and the dialectic of enlightenment -- Ecocriticism and the production of monstrosity in Frankenstein -- Placing modernity in Orlando -- Consuming culture in a small place and among flowers -- Dehumanization, animality, and the bildungsroman.
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.
9781409401582 (e-book) 1409401588 (e-book) 9781472404114 (e-book) 1472404114 (e-book) 1306549949 9781306549943 140940157X (hbk.) 9781409401575 (hbk.)
586245 MIL
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
Bildungsromans.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Bildungsroman
Ecocriticism
Kulturelle Evolution
Natur
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN3448.B54 / .F434 2014eb
809.3/9353
Ecocriticism and the idea of culture : biology and the bildungsroman / Helena Feder. - 1 online resource (188 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, biology and the idea of culture -- Candide and the dialectic of enlightenment -- Ecocriticism and the production of monstrosity in Frankenstein -- Placing modernity in Orlando -- Consuming culture in a small place and among flowers -- Dehumanization, animality, and the bildungsroman.
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.
9781409401582 (e-book) 1409401588 (e-book) 9781472404114 (e-book) 1472404114 (e-book) 1306549949 9781306549943 140940157X (hbk.) 9781409401575 (hbk.)
586245 MIL
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
Bildungsromans.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Bildungsroman
Ecocriticism
Kulturelle Evolution
Natur
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN3448.B54 / .F434 2014eb
809.3/9353