Eco-Man: New Perspectives On Masculinity And Nature (Under The Sign Of Nature) (Paperback)

Eco-Man: New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature (Under the Sign of Nature)

The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male’s reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works?think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner?look to the wild as the site for establishing a man’s selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery.