In her 1860 book
Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women’s rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She was a teacher, a botanist, and, later in life, a Kansas homesteader. In
Lichen Tufts, Wright urged her readers to cultivate an intimate knowledge of the natural world, reflecting her Transcendentalist belief that an immersive relationship with nature benefits the individual as well as society as a whole. Composed of four essays and forty poems,
Lichen Tufts reveals wisdom and beauty in an early example of eco-feminism that highlights the natural world as antidote to society’s restrictive gender codes, one that is still relevant today.
SUNY Press brings
Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies to life for modern audiences, with a recovery edition featuring the 1860 book in its entirety. An Introduction by Emily E. Van Dette places the book and its author in the context of nineteenth-century social reform campaigns throughout the ‘Burned Over District’ of western New York. An Afterword written by Laurie Lounsberry Meehan highlights the history of Alfred University and the cohort that influenced Wright’s environmental and social reform activism.
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New Introduction
Emily E. Van Dette
Into the Woods,
The Nature Cure—for the Body,
The Nature Cure—for the Mind,
The Perfection of the Natural,
A Pilgrim Pagan,
A Dream Anthem,
The Lost Lake,
‘Love in a Cottage, ‘
The Dual Spirit,
A Word to the Weary,
By the Mississippi,
Sacrament,
Make not Poyerty’s Cup too Bitter,
To-Day,
Summer Friendship,
By the Sea-Side,
I’ll Tell You, Coz!,
Pity,
Twain,
Voices,
Beautiful Life,
Phantom Building,
‘Liberty—Equality—Brotherhood, ‘
The Picture on the Wall,
One April Eye,
By a Lake Side,
The Death Watch,
Our Own Old Woods,
Snow Song,
Martha,
Star-Beams in Shadow Land,
Stagnation,
Lullaby,
Sheaves of Time’s Harvest,
A Voice from Afar,
Anniversary Letter,
Anniversary Letter,
Modern Fairies,
Fragment,
Vigil Lessons,
Life’s Nooning Song,
The Moon of Blossoms in Prairie Land,
A Reverie,
Alter Ego,
Afterword
Laurie Lounsberry Meehan
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Elizabeth C. Wright (1826–1882) graduated from Alfred University in 1855. She was an environmental scientist, educator, author, and social reform activist.
Emily E. Van Dette is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia and the author of
Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835–1900.
Laurie Lounsberry Meehan is Librarian and University Archivist at Alfred University.
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