Getting to the Roots of the Matter: Trees in 19th Century Literature (Lecture)

Presenter

Susan Oliver, University of Essex

Publication Date

4-24-2014

Document Type

Presentation

Streaming Media

Abstract

From the medieval greenwood to plantation forestry, nineteenth-century poetry and fiction is filled with references to trees. Susan Oliver looks at ecological crisis and the complex relationship between people and woods as trees were replaced by grass in a rapidly changing world.

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