Ecology and Literature : Ecocentric Personification From Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century

Employing a groundbreaking rhetorical and ecocritical approach, this volume advances personification/anthropomorphism as a means of representing the natural world and arguing for its worth outside of human use. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Personification in Practice and Theory....Pages 1-41 Anthropocentric and Ecological Anthropomorphism Through Western History....Pages 43-98 Anthropomorphic Subversion in American Literature....Pages 99-141 Ecocentric Personification in American Nature Writing....Pages 143-192 Conclusion....Pages 193-199 Back Matter....Pages 201-247