Lexington Books
Pages: 234
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9498-0 • Hardback • April 2015 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
978-0-7391-9499-7 • eBook • April 2015 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
Paul Lindholdt is professor of English at Eastern Washington University.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Edging toward Ecology in Early American Natural History
Chapter 2: Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda
Chapter 3: West of Winthrop: Language and Landscape in Washington Territory
Chapter 4: An Iconography of Sabotage
Chapter 5: Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought
Chapter 6: Overtures to Sublimity: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection
Chapter 7: American Nature Writing and the Wise-Use Movement
Chapter 8: Greening the Dramatic Canon
Chapter 9: Gifts and Misgivings in Place
Chapter 10: Restoring Bioregions through Applied Composition
Notes
Credits
Works Cited
About the Author
[The author's] chapters cut across genres and fields of research, including literary analysis, cultural critique, advocacy for activism, and pedagogy. . . .Repeatedly, Lindholdt has the good sense to answer the question a reader might ask: so what? One is never in doubt that what these writers, such as John Josselyn, William Wood, and William Bartram, published is relevant for us to analyze today.
— ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Lindholdt has given us a strong new collection that stretches the conceptual boundaries of ecocriticism…. Explorations represents a laudable addition to Lexington Books’ recent ecocriticism series. The three terms of his subtitle explain the collection’s innovation, for the unexpected connections between advocacy, bioregionalism, and visual design demonstrate his reach into less familiar territory. Lindholdt’s wide, comfortable interdisciplinarity is commendable…. Perhaps Lindholdt’s most innovative work concerns his subversive reading of the Bureau of Reclamation’s commissioned art collection (1968–73), now dispersed and incomplete, through the conceptual lens of ecopornography. Here is a story few know, and his ecocritical undressing of this propagandistic initiative by a federal agency most known for out-of-control dam building persuasively exposes its agenda. The essay illustrates Lindholdt’s diverse, innovative paths, and Explorations inspires readers to further their own.
— Western American Literature