Synopses & Reviews
Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carsonand#8217;s influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carsonand#8217;s editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an afterword, Linda Lear, Carsonand#8217;s recent biographer, recalls the end of Carsonand#8217;s life and outlines the attention that Carsonand#8217;s book and Carson herself received from scholars and biographers, attention that focused so minutely on her life that it detracted from a focus on her work. The foreword by Brooks and the afterword by Lear frame this exploration within the context of Carsonand#8217;s life and work.
Contributors are Edward P. J. Corbett, Carol B, Gartner, Cheryll Glotfelty, Randy Harris,and#160; M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Linda Lear, Ralph H. Lutts, Christine Oravec, Jacqueline S. Palmer, Markus J. Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Craig Waddell. Together, these essays explore Silent Springand#8217;seffectiveness in conveying its disturbing message and the rhetorical strategies that helped create its wide influence.
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and#147;This collection of original critical and contexting essays, And No Birds Sing, provides rhetorical analyses and additional materials aiding further analyses of Rachel Carsonand#8217;s Silent Spring, one of the most significant public documents in setting citizen and policy agendas in this half century. As the first volume of rhetorical analysis on this important work, Waddelland#8217;s collection makes a major contribution to contemporary rhetoric, rhetoric of the environment, history of the environmental movement, Rachel Carson studies, and contemporary American culture.and#8221;and#151;Charles Bazerman, author of Constructing Experience
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About the Author
Craig Waddell is an associate professor of rhetoric at Michigan Technological University. He is also editor of Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment. and#160;
Table of Contents
The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology of "A fable for tomorrow" / Christine Oravec -- A topical analysis of "The obligation to endure" / Edward P.J. Corbett -- Ecology according to Silent Spring's vision of progress / Tarla Rai Peterson, Markus J. Peterson -- When science writing becomes literary art: the success of Silent Spring / Carol B. Gartner -- Other-words in Silent Spring / Randy Harris -- Cold war, Silent Spring: The trope of war in modern environmentalism / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Silent Spring and science fiction: an essay in the history and rhetoric of narrative / M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Jacqueline S. Palmer -- Afterword: searching for Rachel Carson / Linda Lear.