Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Ecocriticism and the Mid-Twentieth Century
- 1 Attaining Fana in Paul Bowles’s Infinite Landscapes
- 2 Nature and the Nuclear Southwest: Peggy Pond Church and J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 3 The Influence of Chinese and Japanese Literature on J. D. Salinger’s Philosophy of Nature
- 4 The Beat Ecologies of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
- 5 Bifurcated Nature in Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America
- Conclusion: ‘Know that the earth will madonna the Bomb’
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Ecocriticism and the Mid-Twentieth Century
- 1 Attaining Fana in Paul Bowles’s Infinite Landscapes
- 2 Nature and the Nuclear Southwest: Peggy Pond Church and J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 3 The Influence of Chinese and Japanese Literature on J. D. Salinger’s Philosophy of Nature
- 4 The Beat Ecologies of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
- 5 Bifurcated Nature in Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America
- Conclusion: ‘Know that the earth will madonna the Bomb’
- Notes
- Index
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- Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature , pp. 248 - 256Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018