{"product_id":"lichen-tufts-from-the-alleghanies-9781438489209","title":"Lichen Tufts from the Alleghanies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important and prescient early example of US environmental writing with a profound sense of consciousness and appreciation for the natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her 1860 book \u003ci\u003eLichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women''s rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She was a teacher, a botanist, and, later in life, a Kansas homesteader. In \u003ci\u003eLichen Tufts\u003c\/i\u003e, Wright urged her readers to cultivate an intimate knowledge of the natural world, reflecting her Transcendentalist belief that an immersive relationship with nature benefits the individual as well as society as a whole. Composed of four essays and forty poems, \u003ci\u003eLichen Tufts\u003c\/i\u003e reveals wisdom and beauty in an early example of eco-feminism that highlights the natural world as antidote to society''s restrictive gender codes, one that is still relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUNY Press brings \u003ci\u003eLichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies\u003c\/i\u003e to life for modern audiences, with a recovery edition featuring the 1860 book in its entirety. An Introduction by Emily E. VanDette places the book and its author in the context of nineteenth-century social reform campaigns throughout the \"Burned Over District\" of western New York. An Afterword written by Laurie Lounsberry Meehan highlights the history of Alfred University and the cohort that influenced Wright''s environmental and social reform activism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039787352407,"sku":"9781438489209","price":19.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781438489209.jpg?v=1750944839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lichen-tufts-from-the-alleghanies-9781438489209","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}