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New world poetics nature and the adamic imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott / by Handley, George B., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Ecology, the New World, and the "American" Adam -- A New World poetics -- reading Whitman in the New World -- Nature's last chemistry in Leaves of grass -- Natural history as autobiography -- Hemispheric history as natural history -- The muse of (natural) history -- Impressionism in the New World -- Death, regeneration, and the prospect of extinction.…”
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The legacy of the Mastodon the golden age of fossils in America / by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. two: Fossils and geology -- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. …”
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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction; 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal; Part II FORM; 4. …”
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The age of irreverence : a new history of laughter in China / by Rea, Christopher G.

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