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Silent Spring

Carson, Rachel

Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.

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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide

Seager, Joni

Carson’s Silent Spring: A Reader’s Guide provides an in-depth analysis and contextualization of Silent Spring. It also surveys the lasting impact the text has had on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.

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Multimedia | journal article

"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"

Lockwood, Alex

Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.

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Perspectives

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Encounters and Legacies

Edited by Lawrence Culver, Christof Mauch, and Katie Ritson

This issue of RCC Perspectives takes a sweeping look at encounters with and legacies of the book, examining the global impact of Silent Spring over its half century of existence and considering the ways in which Rachel Carson’s ecological worldview equips us to understand and confront current and future challenges to our planet.

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Exhibition chapter

Introduction | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Overview of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll. This exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

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