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Kerstetter, N. "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson." OAH Magazine of History 10, no. 3 (March 1, 1996): 25–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/maghis/10.3.25.

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Beyl, Caula A. "Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Environmental Movement." HortTechnology 2, no. 2 (April 1992): 272–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.2.2.272.

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Cafaro, Philip. "RACHEL CARSON'S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 6, no. 1 (2002): 58–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853502760184595.

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AbstractRachel Carson is well known as a founder of the modern environmental movement. This article argues that her life and writings have much to offer contemporary environmental philosophy. I begin by discussing the environmental ethics articulated in Silent Spring. I next examine Carson's earlier natural history writings and the non-anthropocentrism they express. I conclude with some suggestions for how Carson points the way forward for environmental ethics.
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Thorson, Robert. "Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. By Rachel Carson. Edited by Sandra Steingraber." Environmental History 24, no. 1 (December 4, 2018): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy119.

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Shah, Kushal S. "Silent Spring and the New York Times: How Rachel Carson Won the Journey." IU Journal of Undergraduate Research 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/iujur.v1i1.13727.

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This paper explores people’s reception of and attitudes toward Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, originally published in 1962. Research was conducted entirely through the lens of The New York Times (NYT) articles ranging from before the book’s publication to the present. The articles vary heavily in perspective, representing a range of views towards Carson’s vilification of both the pesticide industry and general American attitudes regarding environmental conservation. Articles from NYT represent public opinion well because the chosen articles come from views representing a variety of sources (corporations, scientists, book reviewers, historians, etc.) and perspectives ranging from maximum support to open criticism of the book. When observed over time, research into these articles tells the story of the change in acceptance of Silent Spring – how it has reached its current state of reverence and influence. This paper comprehensively examines a variety of articles regarding Silent Spring and America’s environmental efforts, tracking the change of general attitudes over the 50 years since its publication.
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Gallavan, Nancy P. "Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan—Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson." Social Studies Research and Practice 1, no. 3 (November 1, 2006): 398–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2006-b0009.

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Rachel Carson was a notable woman who studied the environment and cared for the planet Earth. Her life was highlighted by several significant events that unfolded to future events culminating with her writing the landmark book Silent Spring. In this NCSS notable trade book lesson plan format, students record 12 significant events in Rachel Carson’s life on a graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is designed as 12 circles like the face of a clock to show chronological order. Using the information provided in the book Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson (Ehrlich, 2003), students record 12 events to illustrate the cycle of life. This practical graphic organizer also can be used for recording important events in other people’s lives read in biographies and autobiographies as well as important events in each student’s life. Reading and sharing from the graphic organizer in chronological order prompts meaningful class conversations and learning experiences.
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Hecht, David K. "Constructing a Scientist: Expert Authority and Public Images of Rachel Carson." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 41, no. 3 (2011): 277–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2011.41.3.277.

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This article uses the voluminous public discourse around Rachel Carson and her controversial bestseller Silent Spring to explore Americans' views on science and scientists. Carson provides a particularly interesting case study because of intense and public debates over whether she was a scientist at all, and therefore whether her book should be granted legitimacy as science. Her career defied easy classification, as she acted variously as writer, activist, and environmentalist in addition to scientist. Defending her work as legitimate science, which many though not all commentators did, therefore became an act of defining what both science and scientists could and should be. This article traces the variety of nonscientific images and narratives readers and writers assigned to Carson, such as "reluctant crusader" and "scientist-poet." It argues that nonscientific attributes were central to legitimating her as both admirable person and admirable scientist. It explores how debates over Silent Spring can be usefully read as debates over the desirability of putatively nonscientific attributes in the professional work of a scientist. And it examines the nature of Carson's very democratized image for changing notions of science and scientists in 1960s United States politics and culture.
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Maxwell, Lida. "Queer/Love/Bird Extinction: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a Work of Love." Political Theory 45, no. 5 (May 29, 2017): 682–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591717712024.

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This essay argues for reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a work of love that calls for an environmental politics of desire rather than self-preservation narrowly construed. I make this argument by reading Silent Spring in conjunction with the extant love letters of Carson and Dorothy Freeman, where they depict their love as a wondrous multispecies achievement constituted through encounters with birds. I argue that their example reveals that love need be neither worldless nor heteronormative, but may be a world-disclosing practice that leads individuals to live, and desire to live, differently. Reading Silent Spring through the lens of these letters, I argue that it calls us to see the threat insecticides pose not only to “mere life” (Honig) but also to pleasurable lives of wonder and love. I build on Silent Spring to argue for an alternative politics of survival in the face of climate change: one that foregrounds the connections between inter-human affects and a vibrant multispecies world, between intimate and public feelings, and calls for preservation of a multispecies world through and on behalf of human pleasure.
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Dyke, Chuck. "The Silent Spring of Bruno Latour, Or Rachel Carson Never Was Modern." Poroi 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1007.

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Hynes, H. Patricia. "Since Silent Spring: New Voices, New Analyses, and New Movements." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 12, no. 4 (February 2003): 319–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/p3b2-vt3l-7jdf-424u.

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Forty years ago, in the enormously praised and fiercely criticized book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson demonstrated the dangers of pesticides to humans and ecosystems and called for precaution in their use. Yet, the majority of environmental regulations passed since 1962 have primarily addressed pollutant discharge rather than cleaner products and technologies. The number of active ingredients in pesticides used in the United States has risen from 32 in 1939 to 860 in recent times, while the overall volume of agrochemicals applied has nearly doubled since the publication of Silent Spring. The last 40 years have brought significant changes with respect to environmental policies, agricultural technologies, urbanization, civil rights, women's rights, the roles of non-profit organizations and community development, and increased poverty, hunger, and economic inequality. In recent years, new voices, new analyses, and new movements have emerged offering fresh perspectives on how we can answer Carson's clarion call to protect our planet and ourselves.
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Burke, James E. "Silent Spring's Metaphors: Insights for 21st Century Environmental Discourse." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36419.

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Metaphor as tool is a concept that has increasing analysis and support in the past several years. Long before the wealth of contemporary analysis, Rachel Carson produced Silent Spring, a book hailed as the motivation for a new environmental movement in the United States. The use of metaphor in Silent Spring is most apparent in the title. The title's focus, however poignant, even moving and motivating, is complemented by a rich set of metaphorical entailments and implications that reinforce and strengthen the title's metaphor and represent systemic forces and practices that lead to and prevent a spring of silence. Carson skillfully appropriated marketing metaphors used by chemical companies to sell insecticides and pesticides. She transformed these metaphors into powerful criticisms of indiscriminate chemical practices, forcefully undercutting industry arguments for chemicals as a means of guaranteeing "control." The effects of Carson's metaphors, built on a strong, complex foundation of scientific studies, invite reader participation and interaction as outlined by Lakoff and Johnson. The metaphors further entertain, educate, explain, describe in the sense of Wittgenstein's language games, and tightly integrate action and language. More fundamentally, her metaphors helped to establish a systems view and nature-oriented paradigm for analyzing, and resolving environmental issues and problems in the United States, creating a framework for debate and policy development and implementation, in the vein of Schon's and Rein's arguments for framing and policy design. The metaphors also set a stage for personal motivation by connecting individual human homes to nature and the global environment.
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Morodi, Thabiso John. "To spray or not to spray with DDT to control malaria : a case study in environmental ethics." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53698.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This assignment is devoted to an in depth analysis of the pro- and the contra-positions in the long-standing and costly debate about the question whether to spray with DDT or not in the fight against malaria. I argue that the dilemma whether or not to spray with DDT is born out of a political agenda, hype, exaggeration and misinformation of the first order. Radical environmentalists appear to insist that DDT is a principal contributor of environmental degradation, and the major cause of death amongst wildlife and humans. Worse still, many Western people seem to be under the impression that mosquitoes cannot cause so much human misery as purported, and that malaria is caused by some kind of plant form of life, or even a virus. The proponents of DDT, on the other hand, appear to be convinced that DDT is a saviour of humankind, and argue that the horrors associated with DDT are exaggerated and baseless, as they are not backed by scientific inquiry. Proponents of DDT also believe that anything that is overused may kill, even ordinary table salt. Inthis assignment, both of these positions are scrutinized. On the basis of an historical overview in Chapter I of the history of the use of DDT, and the emergence of the debate about DDT in the wake of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), Chapter 2 is devoted to an evaluation of seven basic arguments against the use of DDT, while in Chapter 3 six arguments for the use of DDT are weighed. In Chapter 4 a resolution of the dilemma is proposed in which a case is made for a limited use of DDT only for indoor spraying of huts and houses against malaria mosquitoes until such time as a less dangerous alternative for DDT is found that can be used as effectively in the fight against malaria. As such, this case is informed by the strong moral conviction that we cannot allow poor people of colour to die because of a general ban on the use of DDT. Further research on this ethical debate is encouraged.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie werkstuk is toegespits op 'n in-diepte analise van die pro- en kontra-posisies in die voortslepende, asook duur debat oor die gebruik van DDT al dan nie in die bekamping van Malaria. Ek argumenteer dat die dilemma rondom die vraag of DDT gebruik moet word of nie, aangewakker word deur politieke agendas, sensasie, oordrywing en foutiewe informasie van die eerste orde. Radikale omgewingsgesindes dring oënskynlik daarop aan dat die gebruik van DDT 'n hoof-oorsaak is van die agteruitgang van die omgewing, asook 'n primêre oorsaak van dood onder wild en mense. Erger nog, dit wil voorkom of heelwat Westerse mense onder die indruk is dat muskiete nie werklik soveel menslike lyding kan veroorsaak as wat voorgegee word nie, en dat malaria eerder veroorsaak word deur 'n sekere soort plantvorm van lewe, of selfs deur 'n virus. Die voorstaanders van DDT, aan die ander kant, is klaarblyklik oortuig dat DDT 'n redder van die mensdom is, en argumenteer dat die gruwels wat geassosieer word met DDT 'n grondelose oordrywing is, aangesien dit nie deur wetenskaplike ondersoek gesteun word nie. Voorstaanders van DDT glo verder dat enige stof wat in oormaat gebruik word, die dood kan veroorsaak, selfs gewone tafelsout. In hierdie werkstuk word albei hierdie posisies krities bestudeer en bespreek. Op grond van 'n historiese oorsig in Hoofstuk 1 oor die gebruik van DDT, en die ontstaan van die debat oor DDT na aanleiding van Rachel Carson se Silent Spring (1962), word Hoofstuk: 2 gewy aan 'n evaluasie van sewe basiese argumente teen die gebruik van DDT, terwyl in Hoofstuk 3 ses argumente vir die gebruik van DDT oorweeg word. In Hoofstuk 4 word 'n voorstel gemaak vir die resolusie van die dilemma deur 'n saak uit te maak vir die beperkte gebruik van DDT, nl. slegs vir binneshuise gebruik in hutte en huise teen malaria-muskiete tot tyd en wyl 'n minder gevaarlike alternatief vir DDT gevind word wat net so effektief sal wees in die stryd teen malaria. As sulks word hierdie studie gerugsteun deur die sterk morele oortuiging dat ons nie kan toelaat dat mense van kleur sterf as gevolg van 'n algemene verbod op die gebruik van DDT nie. Verdere navorsing oor hierdie etiese debat word aangemoedig.
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Eilers, Perthenia. "Creating an environmental conscience revelation and depiction as rhetorical strategies in Rachel Carson's Silent spring /." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30744296.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1994.
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Books on the topic "Silent spring (Carson, Rachel)"

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Understanding Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. New York: Rosen Pub., 2010.

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Craig, Waddell, ed. And no birds sing: Rhetorical analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent spring. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

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Free, Ann Cottrell. Since Silent spring: Our debt to Albert Schweitzer & Rachel Carson : an address. Washington, DC: Flying Fox Press, 1992.

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Lytle, Mark H. The gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Silent spring at 50. Washington, D.C: Cato Institute, 2012.

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1943-, Dunlap Thomas R., ed. DDT, Silent spring, and the rise of environmentalism: Classic texts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.

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The environment in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Detroit, Mich: Greenhaven Press, 2011.

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Meeker, Clare Hodgson. I could not keep silent: The life of Rachel Carson. Chicago, IL: Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

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The Silent Spring Of Rachel Carson. Plain View Press, 2009.

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Stein, Karen F. "Silent Spring (1962)." In Rachel Carson, 61–106. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-068-2_5.

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Stein, Karen F. "After Silent Spring." In Rachel Carson, 107–30. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-068-2_6.

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Güttler, Nils. "Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_23304-1.

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Erdős, László. "The Environmental Movement Is Born – Rachel Carson and Silent Spring." In Green Heroes, 151–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31806-2_30.

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"8. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring Is Now Noisy Summer." In The Alchemy of Disease, 77–87. Columbia University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/whys19166-010.

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"5. The Environment around Us and inside Us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent Spring, and Sandra Steingraber." In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, 162–93. Rutgers University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9780813562438-008.

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Gross, Alan G. "Rachel Carson: The Ethical Sublime." In The Scientific Sublime. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637774.003.0012.

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Rachel Carson has become Saint Rachel, canonized time and again by the environmental movement. May 27, 2007, marked the 100th anniversary of her birth. In that year, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster, Massachusetts, hosted a major Rachel Carson centennial exhibition. The show was a partnership project of the museum and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and it featured artifacts, writings, photographs, and artwork from Carson’s life and career. In 2012, the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring was commemorated by a Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens event and exhibit. From September 7 through October 23, the exhibit presented artwork, photos, and interpretive panels in the visitor center. Canonization, and the posthumous fame it bestows, comes at a price: the disappearance of the Rachel Carson whose work was driven by two forces. The first was the love of nature. A perceptive review of The Sea Around Us compares Carson with great science writers who share with her a love of nature: . . . It is not an accident of history that Gilbert White and Charles Darwin described flora and fauna with genius, nor that the great mariners and voyagers in distant lands can re-create their experiences as part of our own. They wrote as they saw and their honest, questing eye, their care for detail is raised to the power of art by a deep-felt love of nature, and respect for all things that live and move and have their being. . . . The second force was the love of a woman, Dorothy Freeman, a person who in Carson’s view made her later life endurable and her later work possible: . . . All I am certain of is this: that it is quite necessary for me to know that there is someone who is deeply devoted to me as a person, and who also has the capacity and the depth of understanding to share, vicariously, the sometimes crushing burden of creative effort, recognizing the heartache, the great weariness of mind and body, the occasional black despair it may involve—someone who cherishes me and what I am trying to create, as well. . . .
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Norton, Bryan G. "Pollution Control." In Toward Unity among Environmentalists. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195093971.003.0013.

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When active environmentalists were asked in a questionnaire, “Has there been an author who has most deeply affected your thinking about environmental issues?” respondents mentioned Rachel Carson about three times as often as any other writer. Carson’s book Silent Spring has been described as the primary catalyst in transforming the largely moribund conservation movement of the 1950s into the modern environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Carson’s work precipitated the shift from first-generation environmental problems of land and resource protection to second-generation problems, especially pollution, which were more pervasive, less immediately apparent, and in many ways more insidiously threatening to members of the general population. The rise of pollution problems to the forefront of public policy concerns required a new vernacular, a new way of speaking about environmental threats and solutions. Rachel Carson, it is said, succeeded in one place where Leopold had failed; she injected ecological concepts and ideas into broader public policy discussions. Her graphic writing style, as well as her considerable status as a successful author, succeeded in transforming public discussions of environmental problems into a more ecological context by emphasizing the ways in which persistent chemicals move through natural systems and into human bodies. Immense economic stakes were involved in the pesticide issue; production of DDT, for example, quintupled between 1945 and 1962, as chemical manufacturers’ sales climbed from just over $10 billion to almost $33 billion. The publication of Silent Spring caused a huge public controversy; that controversy has set the parameters, as well as the tone, for much of the subsequent debate regarding environmental regulation and environmental policy. Carson began her attack on the indiscriminate use of pesticides with “A Fable for Tomorrow,” in which she described an imaginary town in the heart of America. She first described an idyllic scene of humans living in harmony with their surroundings, including woods and hedgerows inhabited by countless birds, and streams swimming with fish. But “then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change.” Domestic animals died. Humans became ill.
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Worden, Daniel. "Speculative Ecology." In Remaking Reality, 83–98. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638690.003.0005.

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In his essay, “Speculative Ecology: Rachel Carson’s Environmentalist Documentaries,” Daniel Worden argues that Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is not only a path-breaking work of investigative journalism, but also a daring work of imaginative projection. Rereading this seminal book in light of Carson’s earlier writing about the ocean, which she portrays as vast and indecipherable, Worden reinterprets Carson’s storied career and demonstrates her contribution to contemporary writing about climate change. Tasked with describing catastrophe that unfolds incrementally, Carson’s speculative documentary defamiliarizes nature itself, performing the work of estrangement that survival may require.
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Daw, Sarah. "Introduction: Ecocriticism and the Mid-Twentieth Century." In Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature, 1–25. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430029.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter begins by contextualising the study, discussing the representation of Nature in early Cold War American culture and the emergence of modern environmentalism from 1945. The chapter also outlines the book’s argument that whilst the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is understandably viewed as a watershed moment in terms of raising environmental consciousness in America, Silent Spring should also be considered as part of a developing trend of ecological portrayals of Nature in American literature written after 1945. This opening chapter also situates the book’s argument within the field of Cold War literary studies and introduces the book’s ecocritical methodology, including its sustained engagement with Timothy Morton’s ideas of ‘the mesh’ and ‘the ecological thought’ as outlined in The Ecological Thought (2010).
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