Steeped in stories : timeless children's novels to refresh our tired souls / by Perkins, Mitali

Table of Contents: “…Montgomery -- Alienation and faith : Heidi by Johanna Spyri -- Despair and hope : Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace -- Pusillanimity and courage : The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien -- Self-indulgence and temperance : Little women by Louisa May Alcott -- Favoritism and justice : A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Rashness and prudence : The silver chair by C.S. …”
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Steeped in stories : timeless children's novels to refresh our tired souls / by Perkins, Mitali

Table of Contents: “…Montgomery -- Alienation and faith : Heidi by Johanna Spyri -- Despair and hope : Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace -- Pusillanimity and courage : The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien -- Self-indulgence and temperance : Little women by Louisa May Alcott -- Favoritism and justice : A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Rashness and prudence : The silver chair by C. …”

The map of Wilderland : ecocritical reflections on Tolkien's myth of wilderness / by Lehning, Amber

Table of Contents: “…The lands of Arda -- Rangers in the mountains -- Elves in the forest -- Hobbits in the shire -- Part III. The wilderness of myth -- Tolkien and American wilderness philosophy -- Tolkienian wilderness in the information age -- Tolkienian courage and wilderness today.…”

Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Drill, baby, drill : extraction ecologies, futurity, and the provincial realist novel -- "Mine-ridden" : Nostromo -- "The red deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover" : The Mill on the Floss -- "To teem with life" : Jane Rutherford : or, The Miner's Strike -- "Country of the old pits" : Hard Times -- "The habit of the mine" : Sons and Lovers -- Down and out : adventure narrative, extraction, and the resource frontier -- "A great neighbourhood for gold-mines" : Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands -- "A mine of suggestion" : Treasure Island -- "The secret stores of the empire" : Montezuma's Daughter -- "Trading, hunting, fighting, or mining" : King Solomon's Mines -- "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land" : Heart of Darkness -- Worldbuilding meets terraforming : energy, extraction, and speculative fiction -- "Natural energetic agencies" : The Coming Race -- "We do not fight for a piece of diamond" : "Sultana's Dream" -- "A man from another planet" : News from Nowhere -- "Unpleasant creatures from below" : The Time Machine -- "Riddles in the dark" : The Hobbit.…”
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