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Advocating environmentalism: The voice of nature in contemporary children's literature

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  1. Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
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Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor teaches nineteenth-century literature at University of Memphis. She has published numerous articles on Romantic and Victorian poetry, and is the author ofA Moment's Monument: Revisionary Poetics in the Nineteenth-Century English Sonnet (Associated University Presses, 1996). She is also interested in contemporary British drama and children's literature.

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Wagner-Lawlor, J.A. Advocating environmentalism: The voice of nature in contemporary children's literature. Child Lit Educ 27, 143–152 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02355686

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