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.
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. SUNY Press brings Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies to life for modern audiences, with a recovery edition featuring the 1860 book in its entirety. Critical accounts of the fiction of the American Civil War. Composed of four essays and forty poems, Lichen Tufts 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. American Quarterly 48.3 (1996) 439-474 'War was mens business, not ladies,' remarks Margaret Mitchells narrator in Gone With the Wind. In Lichen Tufts, 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. She was a teacher, a botanist, and, later in life, a Kansas homesteader. Editions for Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900: 1299262554 (ebook published in 2013), 1349449571 (Paperback published in 2016), 134944958X (. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women’s rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. VanDette is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia and the author of Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 18351900. Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900 by Vandette Emily E from. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. In her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C.
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