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June 29, 2020

Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Tidwell Christy

Edited by Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy. Clemson University Press, 2020. 

Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects as part of the environment in the work of a diversity of nineteenth-century female writers. The collection engages with current paradigms of thought influencing the field of ecocriticism and, more specifically, ecofeminism. Various theories are featured, informing interpretation of literary and non-literary material, which include ...