Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets-Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington-who contested the exploitation of the natural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is inferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead "reconstructed" nature.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 280 ● ISBN 9780826274298 ● Publisher University of Missouri Press ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6820222 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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