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William Wordsworth and Leslie Marmon Silko: Toward an Ecofeminist Future

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From: Environmental History
Date: 20041001
Author:Anonymous

Teorey, Matthew. "William Wordsworth and Leslie Marmon Silko: Toward an Ecofeminist Future." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 31-56. Compares attitudes toward nature in William Wordsworth's (1770-1850) poetry with the ecofeminist philosophy reflected in Leslie Marmon Silko's (1948- ) novel Ceremony (New York: Viking Press, 1977). Argues that Wordsworth struggled to avoid promoting a patriarchal, imperialistic attitude toward nature and instead tried, often unsuccessfully, to embrace a harmonious relationship between human beings and nature.

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