Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Womens Environmental Writing, 1781-1924
Rosenthal "Choice " Karen Kilcup s Fallen Forests expands our sense of American literary en- gagement with the nonhuman world well beyond the established canon. Welcome and timely, Fallen Forests reveals early America's engagement with issues that continue to grip the nation's environmental injustices.
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Johnson "author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation " Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and brilliantly argued, Fallen Forests is a major contribution to ecocriticism and to the study of nineteenthcentury American women writers more broadly. Branch "editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden " Kilcup's career as a noted scholar of American women's writings is on full display in this book.
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Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. She explores the intersections and inevitable mixing of these different forms of storytelling, and she goes far beyond reading them as chronicles of a bygone time in American environmental history or even as forgotten treasures of nature writing. The multifaceted tradition of environmental writing that Kilcup uncovers begins in when the Cherokee Beloved Woman and political activist Nancy Ward gave her first recorded speech to U.
From here, the book proceeds in a chronological vein, considering diverse groups of writers within thematically organized chapters.
The first chapter focuses on the orally influenced hybrid rhetoric of Native American writers who responded to the traumatic experiences around eastern Indian Removal, among them Margaret Ann Scott, Lydia Sigourney, and Mary Jemison. Regardless of their many important differences, Kilcup suggests, these narratives all grapple with questions of land ownership, resource exploitation, and the closely related question of who gets to own and exploit humans and nonhuman nature alike.
In most cases this critical analysis of female embodiment is convincingly linked to nonhuman nature and the environmental cost of consumer culture. Throughout the book, Kilcup relies on the concept of literary emotional intelligence 3 in her analysis of the affective narrative strategies and activist rhetoric that she detects in the writings of these nineteenth-century women.
This allows her to approach the issue of embodiment from a materialist perspective, and it also turns her focus toward the rhetorical functions of empathy and sympathy and their relationship to ethical questions. Nor is there an engagement with theories of embodiment for example within the field of embodied cognition beyond those debated within material feminism Alaimo and Hekman ; Alaimo The conclusion could very well have been that grouping readers and non-readers into such clear-cut categories with regard to their emotionality is inherently problematic.