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THE LITERARY HERITAGE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUST...

The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature
from writers who fought for women's rights  native rights  workers' power  and the abolition of
slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society and enact
solitary white male encounters with a feminine nature. However  the symbolic landscapes of
Romanticism were often radicalized by writers like Olaudah Equiano  Frederick Douglass  William
Apess  George Copway  Mary Wollstonecraft  Lydia Maria Child  John Clare  and Henry Thoreau.
These authors showed how the oppression of human beings and the exploitation of nature are the
twin driving forces of capitalism and colonialism. In addition to spotlighting new kinds of
environmental literature  this book also reinterprets familiar texts by figures like William
Blake  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Mary Shelley  William Wordsworth  and Walt Whitman  and it shows
how these household figures were writing in conversation with their radical contemporaries.

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