TY - BOOK ID - 77924546 TI - Ecocriticism and the idea of culture PY - 2014 SN - 1317146417 1317146409 1315578646 1409401588 9781409401582 9781472404114 1472404114 1306549949 9781306549943 140940157X 9781409401575 9781409401575 9781315578644 9781317146391 9781317146407 9781138249851 PB - Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont DB - UniCat KW - Bildungsromans KW - Ecology in literature. KW - Nature in literature. KW - Nature in poetry KW - Bildungsroman KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77924546 AB - Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in her examination of works by Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Jamaica Kincaid. She dramatizes Western culture's own awareness of the instability of the binary of nature and culture, making a timely intervention in the ongoing culture-nature debate, bridging the gap between cultural theory and biologically grounded research. ER -