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Moore  \nECOLOGY AND LITERATURE  \nCopyright © Bryan L. Moore, 2008.  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-0-230-60669-2 All rights reserved.  \nFirst published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN®  \nin the US—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.  \nWhere this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.  \nPalgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPalgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.  \nISBN 978-1-349-60336-7 ISBN 978-0-230-61465-9 (eBook) DOI 10. 1057/9780230614659  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moore, Bryan L.  \nEcology and literature : ecocentric personification from antiquity to the twenty-first century / Bryan L. Moore.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references.  \n1. American literature—History and criticism. 2. Ecology in literature. 3. Personification in literature. 4. Nature in literature.  \n5. Anthropomorphism in literature. 6. English literature—History and criticism. 7. Environmental literature—History and criticism. I. Title.  \nPS169. E25M66 2008  \n810.9 􀀂36—dc22 2008001226 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.  \nDesign by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: September 2008  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nTransferred to Digital Printing in 2011  \nFor my parents  \nContents  \nPrefatory Note ix  \nPart 1 Personification in Practice and Theory 1  \nRhetorical Approach 3  \nEcocentrism 5  \nEcocentric Personification 10  \nAnthropomorphism: Resistance and Inevitability 13  \nThe Ubiquity of Anthropomorphism 16  \nAnthropomorphism and Ethology 21  \nAnthropomorphism as Taboo and Norm in Nature Writing 24  \nPersonification Theory 28  \nThe Demotion of Personification 34  \nPersonification and Allegory: Abrams and de Man 37  \nPart 2 Anthropocentric and Ecological  \nAnthropomorphism through Western History 43  \nAntiquity 44  \nEarly Christian, Medieval 55  \nEarly Science 62  \nThe Enlightenment 69  \nEnglish Eighteenth-Century Poetry 78  \nWordsworth and the Birth of Ecological Poetry 85  \nDarwin 93  \nPart 3 Anthropomorphic Subversion in  \nAmerican Literature 99  \nEarly America 100  \nWilliam Bartram 104  \nEarly American Romanticism 107  \nEmerson 111  \nHerman Melville and Anti-Anthropocentric  \nPersonification 117  \nWalt Whitman and “Song of Myself,” Chant 32 120  \nEmily Dickinson 125  \nviii Co n t en ts  \nThe Naturalists (Stephen Crane, Frank Norris,  \nJack London) 127  \nWilliam Faulkner’s Bear 130  \nRobinson Jeffers and the Tragedy of  \nAnthropocentrism 131  \nFlannery O’Connor’s View of the Woods 134  \nEcocentric Personification in Post–World War II  \nAmerican Poetry 136  \nPart 4 Ecocentric Personification in  \nAmerican Nature Writing 143  \nHenry David Thoreau 144  \nJohn Muir 151  \nMary Austin 156  \nAldo Leopold 160  \nLoren Eiseley 169  \nEdward Abbey 173  \nAnnie Dillard 178  \nTerry Tempest Williams 182  \nEcocentric Personification in Three  \nTwenty-first-Century Works 186  \nConclusion 193  \nNotes 201  \nWorks Cited 221  \nIndex 237  \nPrefatory Note  \nThis book is derived from my doctoral dissertation, Ecocentric Personification in American Nature Writing (1996), but its genesis goes back a dozen years earlier, as I began to be drawn deeply into the work of Thoreau and other (for lack of a better term)“nature writers.” For some reason, I took special interest in passages by these writers that represent the natural world with human traits. 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