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Union CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfneetady, NYHollow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/thesesCf Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Comparative Literature CommonsRecommended CitationPinkham, Robert, 'Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature Writers’ (2017). Honors Thau. 71.https://digitalwork Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfsunion.edu/theses/71This Open Acccii it brought to )OU for free and open aoccst by the Student Wark at Union Digital Works. It ha* been accepted for HConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
KÌu*>on 111 Honor* ‘1 hews by an authorized administrator of Union I Digital Ubrks. For more information, please contact digitilworksiSMnionxdu.Table Union CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfdustrial Revolution37Chapter 3: Looking Buck, or Moving Forward, from the Modern World67Conclusion104Works Cited110ABSTRACTThis thesis examines five New England nature writers and their works from three distinct historical literary periods—William Cullen Bryant's poetry horn the era before industria Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdflism (up to 1830): Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays (1841-1844) and Henry-David Thoreau’s ỈỈ'aỉden (1854) from the Industrial Revolution (1830-1860): andConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
finally Robert frost's poetry and Henry Boston’s The Outermost House (1929) horn the modernist period (1920-1950). lhesc writers are connected by a slUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfy. This tiresis engages with these writers and their rimes in light of the historical development of industrialism and how it has worked to undermine rhe importance of connecting with the natural world. Over the course of tluee chapters, this thesis traces the development of environmental thought am Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfong New England writers and takes account of how industrialism changes predominant attitudes about nature. Since each of these writers rejects certainConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
cultural attitudes that prevail in their time, this thesis grapples with how and why they depart horn the norm in terms of then thoughts about the naUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdft protecting or conserving the environment. His advocacy for a deep spiritual connection with nature clashes with the prevailing capitalist view of nature that would help industrialism to develop in New England. However, once the Industrial Revolution sweeps across New England. Emerson and Thoreau i Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfssue warnings about rhe dangers of industrialism severing humanity horn the natural world. They rail against the institutions and customs of then timeConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
s, arguing that those will contribute to a society-wide spiritualrot By the twentieth century. Beston and Frost have to grapple with being lovers of nUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfBeston remains hopeful that we can engage meaningfriily and spiritually with the environment even 111 modem times.These somewhat divergent views highlight the tensions of enviroiunental thought 111 the modern, industrial world between the desire to live in harmony with the natural world and the blea Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfk realities of modernity. Industrialism and its effects of alienating large swaths of our culture from engagement with the natural world have forced tConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
hese authors to focus on how to protect New England environments and landscapes This history of this grand conversation about nature delivers us into Union CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfting in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New England helps US to better understand contemporary environmental concerns and gives usthe chance to move forward 111 the best maimer possible.INTRODUCTIONIn our contemporary world, urbanized and industrialized and teclmologized, have we lost OIU fu Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfndamental connections with nature that has sustained US for milleiuua?Harold Fromm seems to think so. In his 1978 article. “From Transcendence to ObsoConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
lescence: A Route Map.” he argues that in premodem times, human societies had a more comprehensive understanding of how our livelihood is entirely preUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfces for shelter. This understanding was often translated into spiritual and religious notions of nature as sacred, or at least as deserving of veneration and good care. Since the advent of industrialism during the nineteenth century and the exponential technological growth that came along with it. h Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdfowever. Fromm finds that in Western and industrialized cultures we have made the mistake of presuming that human technology IS what sustains US. In doConceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf
ing so. we have forsaken our eai lier conception of nature as providing for US and have consequently found obsolete the idea that we share a spiritualUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - Sihen Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf the natural world.This false understanding of technology as the source of our sustenance as opposed to nature is one of the leading conceptual developments that have fostered behaviors towaid the en\ nonment that have helped to exacerbate the global climate crisis we now face. Fromm spells this out Conceptualizing Nature- New England Nature Writers.pdf. writing that modem humans “are rarely in a position to experience a connection between the commodity that fulfills then need and Its naturalUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - SihenUnion CollegeUnion I Digital WorksHonors ThesesStudent Work42887Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature WritersRobert PinkhamL'moii College - SihenGọi ngay
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