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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence Ingalls Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, specialist on antebellum American literature and a pioneer of Ecocriticism. He is the 2007 recipient of the Jay Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary studies, the "highest professional award that the American Literature Section of the MLA can give." He won the 2003 Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism for his 2003 book on Ralph Waldo Emerson. His Writing for an Endangered World won the 2001 John G. Cawelti Award for the best book in the field of American Culture Studies. He retired from Harvard in 2011.

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The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1996) (794)
Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond (2001) (218)
American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon (1992) (152)
Toxic Discourse (1998) (109)
The Unkillable Dream of the Great American Novel: Moby-Dick as Test Case (2008) (100)
Literature and Environment (2011) (77)
Shades of the planet : American literature as world literature (2007) (74)
In Pursuit of Ethics (1999) (70)
Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (1973) (69)
Ecocriticism: Some Emerging Trends (2011) (63)
Forum on Literatures of the Environment (1999) (57)
Rural Reading@@@Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (1990) (49)
The Ecocritical Insurgency (1999) (42)
The Dream of the Great American Novel (2014) (41)
American Pastoral Ideology Reappraised1 (1989) (31)
Reinventing Literary History@@@New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance (1987) (25)
Landscape and written expression in revolutionary America (1988) (20)
Downwardly Mobile for Conscience's Sake: Voluntary Simplicity from Thoreau to Lily Bart (2005) (19)
Thoreaus Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (2000) (19)
The Unitarian Movement and the Art of Preaching in 19th Century America (1972) (17)
The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James (1969) (16)
Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance (1978) (15)
Religion on the American Mind (2006) (15)
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America.@@@Susanna Rowson: Charlotte Temple.@@@Hannah W. Foster: The Coquette. (1988) (15)
The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (2006) (14)
The identification of outdoor adventure leadership competencies for entry-level and experienced-level personnel : a dissertation (1981) (14)
The Building of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1977) (14)
Melville and the question of American decolonization (1992) (13)
The Magic Circle of Walden (1968) (12)
New England Literary Culture: Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works (1986) (12)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics (2013) (11)
Beyond Nature? Recent Work in Ecocriticism@@@The Song of the Earth@@@Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and beyond@@@American Literary Environmentalism@@@Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature@@@Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopo (2002) (11)
The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet (1991) (11)
Puritan Influences in American Literature (1981) (11)
What is Called Ecoterrorism (2008) (10)
A keener perception : ecocritical studies in American art history (2009) (10)
Circling the Spheres: A Dialogue (1998) (8)
Frost as a New England Poet (2001) (7)
"The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished (7)
Young Man Thoreau@@@Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Political Reputation in America (1977) (6)
The Question of Form in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (1979) (6)
William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship (2017) (5)
Environmental Writing for Children: A Selected Reconnaissance of Heritages, Emphases, Horizons (2014) (5)
The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage: The Structure of an American Cult (1989) (5)
Anthropocene Panic: Contemporary Ecocriticism and the Issue of Human Numbers (2016) (5)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992) (5)
Transcendentalist Catalogue Rhetoric: Vision Versus Form (1968) (5)
The Liberating Gods: Emerson on Poets and Poetry (1971) (4)
The Timeliness of Place: Response to the Presidential Address (2006) (4)
New England Literary Culture: Notes (1986) (4)
Joseph Stevens Buckminster: The Making of a New England Saint (1979) (4)
Melville the Poet (1998) (4)
Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism (2005) (3)
Emersonian Anti-Mentoring: From Thoreau to Dickinson and Beyond (2002) (3)
[Review of: J. Kandybowicz (2008) The grammar of repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax-phonology interface] (2011) (3)
Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. (1987) (3)
Emerson (2004) (3)
The Extra: Literary History Without Sexism? Feminist Studies and Canonical Reconception (1987) (3)
Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca (1976) (3)
The New England Renaissance and American Literary Ethnocentrism (1985) (3)
Ethics as Objectivity: A Necessary Oxymoron? (2001) (2)
Introduction: American Literary Globalism? (2015) (2)
Manifest Destiny and the Question of the Moral Absolute (2010) (2)
Crosscurrents of urban theory (1999) (2)
American Literature in Context, II: 1830-1865.@@@British Influence on the Birth of American Literature. (1983) (2)
The recognition of Henry David Thoreau (1969) (2)
Thoreaus Sense of Place (2000) (1)
World literature and US American literature (2011) (1)
American Literature and the American Environment: There Never Was an “Is” without a “Where” (2011) (1)
Hawthorne's Lost Notebook (1979) (1)
New England Literary Culture: Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and Others (1986) (1)
11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel (2014) (1)
New England Literary Culture: Literary Scripturism (1986) (1)
Reading Emerson for the structures: The coherence of the essays (1972) (1)
Unitarian Aesthetics and Emerson's Poet-Priest (1968) (1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the dream of the great American novel (2004) (1)
Variety as religious experience: the poetics of the plain style (2006) (1)
Theories of the American novel in the age of realism (2011) (1)
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History? (2005) (1)
Scripting the Environment (2002) (1)
Manifesto as Interrogation (2015) (1)
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 7: 1807-1844.@@@The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 8: 1845-1859.@@@The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9: 1860-1869. (1995) (1)
The Melville Archetype@@@The Poetry of Melville's Late Years: Time, History, Myth, and Religion (1971) (1)
Postmodern Ecologizing: Circumference without a Center (1996) (1)
It's Good, But Is It History? (1989) (1)
TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture (2016) (0)
: American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature. . Douglas Robinson. (1986) (0)
New England Literary Culture: The Cultural Landscape in Regional Poetry and Prose (1986) (0)
1. Toxic Discourse (2001) (0)
Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism (1975) (0)
Disaffi liation as Engagement (2016) (0)
The Romantic Heroic Ideal by James D. Wilson (review) (2014) (0)
6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond (2014) (0)
New England Literary Culture: Fictionalizing Puritan History: Some Problems and Approaches (1986) (0)
2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes (2014) (0)
Part IV. The First Person (2017) (0)
4. Discourses of Determinism (2001) (0)
The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes IX and X (1975) (0)
5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold (2001) (0)
New Directions in (Transnational) American Literature Studies (2009) (0)
Steve Mentz.Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 225 pp. (2016) (0)
4. “Success” Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism (2014) (0)
New England Literary Culture: A Narrative Overview of New England's Literary Development (1986) (0)
5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow (2014) (0)
Hawthorne and the Problem of “American” Fiction: (2021) (0)
Marketplace, Ethos, Practice: The Antebellum Literary Situation (1986) (0)
Emerson : from preacher to poet (1967) (0)
From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826. By Thomas Hallock. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii, 289 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2820-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078- 5491-3.) (2004) (0)
Doing Biography Naturally (1997) (0)
Part II. The Living Word (2017) (0)
Neo-Confucianism, Japan, and âNature Is Principleâ (2014) (0)
The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volumes III-IV (1973) (0)
Robert E. Abrams. Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, number 139.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 168. $60.00 (2005) (0)
: The Unsounded Centre: Jungian Studies in American Romanticism. . Martin Bickman. ; City of Nature: Journeys to Nature in the Age of American Romanticism. . Bernard Rosenthal. (1981) (0)
Introduction Fatalisms of the Multitude (2014) (0)
EM BUSCA DA ÉTICA In pursuit of ethics (2009) (0)
Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (2017) (0)
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. By Alan Taylor. (New York: Knopf, 1995. viii, 549 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-394-58054-0.) (1997) (0)
New England Literary Culture: The Concept of Puritan Ancestry (1986) (0)
12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos’s U.S.A.— or Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath? (2014) (0)
The Bibliographical Conscience (1992) (0)
13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow— and Its Rainbow (2014) (0)
EMERSON: AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY (1989) (0)
Teaching English in American Universities—1895 (1997) (0)
Reviews of Books:Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism Robert E. Abrams (2005) (0)
Yearning for Utopia : Earth , Body , Deviance and Festive-Carnival Failure in Cereus Blooms at Night Curdella Forbes (2011) (0)
New England Literary Culture: The Village as Icon (1986) (0)
New England Poetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and Others (1986) (0)
The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature by Roger Asselineau (review) (2014) (0)
8. Watershed Aesthetics (2001) (0)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: DAYS OF ENCOUNTER (1985) (0)
1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline (2014) (0)
Part I. Background and General Principles (2017) (0)
The Economist: Henry Thoreau and Enterprise. By Leonard N. Neufeldt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 210. $29.95 (1990) (0)
2. The Place of Place (2001) (0)
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others (2014) (0)
WALDO EMERSON: A BIOGRAPHY (1981) (0)
The Poems of Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1977) (0)
Vital Statistics: A Quantitative Analysis of Authorship as a Profession in New England (1986) (0)
The Papers of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1977) (0)
Part III. Word and World: Nature as a Model for Literary Form (2017) (0)
New England Literary Culture: Hawthorne and Stowe as Rival Interpreters of New England Puritanism (1986) (0)
Melville's Protest Theism: The Hidden and Silent God in Clarel (review) (2012) (0)
3. The Reluctant Master Text The Making and Remakings of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (2014) (0)
New England Literary Culture: Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau (1986) (0)
Introduction American Dreamers in Context (2014) (0)
By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America by Howard Horwitz (review) (2014) (0)
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Its Aftermaths (2014) (0)
Book Review:The Improper Bostonian: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Edwin P. Hoyt (1980) (0)
The Politics of Historiography (1986) (0)
10. Morrison’s Beloved as Culmination and Augury (2014) (0)
Introduction Shifting Ratios, Dangerous Proximities (2014) (0)
A Natural History Of Nature Writing. By Frank Stewart. Notes, bibliography, index and The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell. Notes, index (1996) (0)
Literary History as a Hybrid Genre (1993) (0)
New England Literary Culture: Neoclassical Continuities: The Early National Era and the New England Literary Tradition (1986) (0)
Links with the Past... History as Environmental Education. (1976) (0)
: Truth in American Fiction: The Legacy of Rhetorical Idealism. . Janet Gabler-Hover. (1991) (0)
Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America (2021) (0)
Nay-Saying in Concord: Emerson, Alcott, and Thoreau. (1980) (0)
9. Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South (2014) (0)
Bicentennial Thoreau (2019) (0)
New England Oratory from Everett to Emerson (1986) (0)
New England Literary Culture: Comic Grotesque (1986) (0)

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