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Names: Braddock, Alan C., 1961 , editor. | Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982 , editor.
Title: A greene country towne : Philadelphias ecology in the cultural imagination / Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe, eds.
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and .
Summary: A 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 studiesProvided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016031246 | ISBN 9780271077130 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Urban ecology (Sociology)PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory. | EcocriticismPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory. | Ecology in art. | Ecology in literature.
Classification: LCC HT243.U62 P45 2016 | DDC 307.7609748/11dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031246
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Photo: Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia.
