{"product_id":"a-greene-country-towne-9780271077130","title":"A Greene Country Towne","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays exploring the ways in which art and literature have imagined, animated, and embodied the complex ecology of Philadelphia since the seventeenth century.  Essays utilize emerging methods of interpretation in ecocriticism, new materialism, art history, philosophy, and urban studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Performing remarkable syntheses of environmental history and recent materialist cultural theory, the essays in \u003ci\u003eA Greene Country Towne\u003c\/i\u003e confirm Philadelphia’s centrality to the political, commercial, scientific, artistic, and natural history of the United States. A milestone in the multidisciplinary environmental humanities.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Michael Ziser,author of \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Practice and Early American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are moments of wonder and insights scattered throughout, including the English professor Maria Farland’s ecological reading of Walt Whitman’s \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e and the art historian Laura Turner Igoe’s environmental interpretation of the work of Charles Willson Peale.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Peter C. Mancall \u003ci\u003eWinterthur Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Imagining Urban Ecology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tAlan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Ink and Paper, Clamshells and Leather: Power, Environmental Perception, and Materiality in the Lenape-European Encounter at Philadelphia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tMichael Dean Mackintosh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: “Processes of Nature and Art”: The Ecology of Charles Willson Peale’s Smoke-Eaters and Stoves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Turner Igoe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Mapping The Quaker City’s Queer Ecology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary I. Unger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Visualizing Urban Nature in Fairmount Park: Economic Diversity, History, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tNate Gabriel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Netted Together: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion at the Dawn of Comparative Biology\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tJohn Ott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Expansive Exhibitions: Agriculture and Environment in Walt Whitman’s Camden-Philadelphia Region\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tMaria Farland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: “Our yard looks something like a zoological garden”: Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and Domestic Animality\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan C. Braddock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: “A Thorough Study of Causes”:  W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro, and Progressive Era Materiality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tScott Hicks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Exhibiting Philadelphia’s Vital Center: Negotiating Environmental and Civic Reform in a Popular Postwar Planning Vision\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tAmy E. Menzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: “Entertainment for all of the senses”: Stephen Starr’s Experience Dining and the Revitalization of Postindustrial Philadelphia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tStephen Nepa \t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: “The water flows beneath it still. . .”: Remembering and Re-imagining Philadelphia’s Old Dock Creek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tSue Ann Prince\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Remapping Philadelphia’s Post-Industrial Terrain: A Network in Flux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea Hansen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400796414295,"sku":"9780271077130","price":75.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-greene-country-towne-9780271077130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}