Wetlands and Western Cultures

Denigration to Conservation

Rod Giblett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4345-2 (ISBN)

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In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett’s analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to wetlands—their denigration as dead or their commendation as living waters with a potent cultural history.

Rod Giblett is honorary associate professor of environmental humanities at Deakin University.

Introduction: An Invitation for Wading into Wetlands

PART 1: WETLANDS AND -OLOGIES

Chapter 1: Theology of Wetlands: Tolkien, Beowulf, and Milton on Marshes and Their Monsters

Chapter 2: Psychology of Wetlands: Mourning, Melancholy, and Marshes

PART II: WETLANDS, ART, AND CULTURE

Chapter 3: Wetland Cultures of the English Fens: Politics, Painting, Poetry, Prose, and Art History

Chapter 4: Wetland Cultures of ‘Australia Felix’: From Mountain Ranges and Landscape Painting to Wetland Places in Environmental Artwork

Chapter 5: Wetland Cultures of ‘Western Australia Felix’: From Mountain Range and Landscape Aesthetics to Wetland Womb in Environmental Artwork

PART III: WETLANDS AND CITIES

Chapter 6: The Birth of Sydney and the Death of its Wetlands

Chapter 7: Water in Urban Waterscapes and Wetlands in London and Melbourne

PART IV: WETLANDS AND NATURE WRITING

Chapter 8: Henry David Thoreau: The Patron Saint of Swamps

Chapter 9: Farewell: Nature writing and Black Swan Lake

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Environment and Society
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 228 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10	1-7936-4345-8 / 1793643458
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4345-2 / 9781793643452
Zustand	Neuware