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The recent growth in concern about environmental issues has made itself felt in many aspects of American academic life — an increase in environmental science courses and social science courses, an increase in humanities courses in such fields as history and philosophy, and rapid growth in the number of ecology and environmental studies programs and schools. Nowhere, however, has this developing cultural interest been more dramatically manifest than in the study of literature. From what was once a small group of scholars interested chiefly in the study of the history of American nature writing, the field, after a slow start in the early 1970s, has grown rapidly both in the breadth and depth of what is studied and in the number of its practitioners.
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Dixon, T. (1996). The literature of toxicity from Rachel Carson to Ana Castillo. In: Di Giulio, R.T., Monosson, E. (eds) Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health. Chapman & Hall Ecotoxicology Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1523-7_16
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