The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science by Miller, John MacNeill
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science by Miller, John MacNeill

The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science

Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecology The Ecological Plot traces the roots of this...
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Author: John MacNeill Miller
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The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science by Miller, John MacNeill

The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science

BD$81.31
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science by Miller, John MacNeill

The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science

BD$81.31
Author: John MacNeill Miller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecology

The Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of different disciplines, John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew on a shared set of literary techniques to imagine how different species could work together as a single, interdependent community, redefining the way we conceptualize the natural world.

Beginning with a series of revolutionary exchanges between the political economist Thomas Robert Malthus, the writer Harriet Martineau, and the naturalist Charles Darwin, The Ecological Plot identifies the foundations of modern notions of ecology, economics, and realist fiction, maps how they evolved through the works of Victorian writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, and shows how they resurfaced in the works of Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson a century later.

Miller's book reveals why our most sophisticated efforts to explain humanity's relationship to nature have been segregated into different disciplines and makes an argument for the importance of bringing these separate ways of understanding the world back together as a crucial step toward solving the environmental, economic, and ethical problems of the present.

Author: John MacNeill Miller
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780813951782

About the Author
John MacNeill Miller is Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College.
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