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Early American Nature Writers

Daniel Patterson,Roger Thompson,J. Scott Bryson
Early American Nature Writers Book PDF

Author : Daniel Patterson,Roger Thompson,J. Scott Bryson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313346804

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Early American Nature Writers by Daniel Patterson,Roger Thompson,J. Scott Bryson Pdf

At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading. Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.

Early American Nature Writers

Daniel Patterson
Early American Nature Writers Book PDF

Author : Daniel Patterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313346811

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Early American Nature Writers by Daniel Patterson Pdf

At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading. Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.

Reading the Roots

Michael P. Branch
Reading the Roots Book PDF

Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820325481

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Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Steven Petersheim,Madison Jones IV
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth Century American Literature Book PDF

Author : Steven Petersheim,Madison Jones IV
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498508384

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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Steven Petersheim,Madison Jones IV Pdf

The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations of environmentally-aware writing across the genres of nineteenth-century literature. Like Lawrence Buell, the authors of this collection find Thoreau’s writing a touchstone of nineteenth-century environmental writing, particularly focusing on Thoreau’s claim that humans may function as “scribes of nature.” However, these studies of Thoreau’s antecedents, contemporaries, and successors also reveal a range of other writers in the nineteenth century whose literary treatments of nature are often more environmentally attuned than most readers have noticed. The writers whose works are studied in this collection include canonical and forgotten writers, men and women, early nineteenth-century and late nineteenth-century authors, pioneers and conservationists. They drew attention to the conflicted relationships between humans and the American continent, as experienced by Native Americans and European Americans. Taken together, these essays offer a fresh perspective on the roots of environmental literature in nineteenth-century American nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as in multi-genre compositions such as the travel writings of Margaret Fuller. Bringing largely forgotten voices such as John Godman alongside canonical voices such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, the authors whose writings are studied in this collection produced a diverse tapestry of nascent American environmental writing in the nineteenth-century. From early nineteenth-century writers such as poet Philip Freneau and novelist Charles Brockden Brown to later nineteenth-century conservationists such as John James Audubon and John Muir, Scribes of Nature shows the development of an environmental consciousness and a growing conservationist ethos in American literature. Given their often surprisingly healthy respect for the natural environment, these nineteenth-century writers offer us much to consider in an age of environmental crisis. The complexities of the supposed nature/culture divide still work into our lives today as economic and environmental issues are often seen at loggerheads when they ought to be seen as part of the same conversation of what it means to live healthy lives, and to pass on a healthy world to those who follow us in a world where human activity is becoming increasingly threatening to the health of our planet.

Nature Writing and America

Peter A. Fritzell
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Author : Peter A. Fritzell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029943597

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Nature Writing and America by Peter A. Fritzell Pdf

Fritzell (English, Lawrence U.) investigates the unique evolution of nature writing in America--first exemplified by Thoreau's Walden, and later refined and amplified in the works of Aldo Leopold, Loren Eiseley, Edward Abbey, and Annie Dillard, among others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mapping Region in Early American Writing

Edward Watts,Keri Holt,John Funchion
Mapping Region in Early American Writing Book PDF

Author : Edward Watts,Keri Holt,John Funchion
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820348223

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Mapping Region in Early American Writing by Edward Watts,Keri Holt,John Funchion Pdf

Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape. Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860, Mapping Region in Early American Writing examines a period often overlooked in studies of regional literature in America. More than simply offering a prehistory of regionalist writing, these essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional spaces in the United States as it grew from a union of disparate colonies along the eastern seaboard into an industrialized nation on the verge of overseas empire building. They also seek to amplify lost voices of diverse narratives from minority, frontier, and outsider groups alongside their more well-known counterparts in a time when America’s landscapes and communities were constantly evolving.

A Natural History of Nature Writing

Frank Stewart
A Natural History of Nature Writing Book PDF

Author : Frank Stewart
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610912471

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A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries, including: Henry D. Thoreau, the father of American nature writing. John Burroughs, a schoolteacher and failed businessman who found his calling as a writer and elevated the nature essay to a loved and respected literary form. John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, who celebrated the wilderness of the Far West as few before him had. Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service employee and scholar who extended our moral responsibility to include all animals and plants. Rachel Carson, a scientist who raised the consciousness of the nation by revealing the catastrophic effects of human intervention on the Earth's living systems. Edward Abbey, an outspoken activist who charted the boundaries of ecological responsibility and pushed these boundaries to political extremes. Stewart highlights the controversies ignited by the powerful and eloquent prose of these and other writers with their expansive – and often strongly political – points of view. Combining a deeply-felt sense of wonder at the beauty surrounding us with a rare ability to capture and explain the meaning of that beauty, nature writers have had a profound effect on American culture and politics. A Natural History of Nature Writing is an insightful examination of an important body of American literature.

Such News of the Land

Thomas S. Edwards,Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
Such News of the Land Book PDF

Author : Thomas S. Edwards,Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1584650982

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Such News of the Land by Thomas S. Edwards,Elizabeth A. De Wolfe Pdf

A collection of new essays establishes women's voices as a powerful presence in US nature writing.

A Republic of Rivers

John A. Murray
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Author : John A. Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780195076059

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A Republic of Rivers by John A. Murray Pdf

This is an advance reading sampler for "A republic of rivers: three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon."

American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847

Matthew Wynn Sivils
American Environmental Fiction 1782 1847 Book PDF

Author : Matthew Wynn Sivils
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317182313

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American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 by Matthew Wynn Sivils Pdf

While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, Gothic novels, and juvenile literature. Authors such as William Bartram, Ann Eliza Bleecker, and Samuel Griswold Goodrich, to name just a few, enabled the development of a credibly American brand of proto-environmental fiction. Sivils argues that these seeds of environmental literature would come to fruition in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers, which he argues is the first uniquely environmental American novel. He then connects the biogeographical politics of Cooper’s The Prairie with European anti-Americanism; and concludes this study by examining how James Kirke Paulding, Thomas Cole, and James Fenimore Cooper imaginatively addressed the problem of human culpability and nationalistic cohesiveness in the face of natural disasters. With their focus on the character and implications of the imagined American landscape, these key works of early environmental thought contributed to the growing influence of the natural environment on the identity of the fledgling nation decades before the influences of Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walden.

Reading the Roots

Michael P. Branch
Reading the Roots Book PDF

Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820325481

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Reading the Roots by Michael P. Branch Pdf

Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

Literature of Nature

Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato
Literature of Nature Book PDF

Author : Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1579580106

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Literature of Nature by Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

American Nature Writers

John Elder
American Nature Writers Book PDF

Author : John Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0684804794

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American Nature Writers by John Elder Pdf

Provides a history and criticism of the nature writing genre and biographical and critical essays on individual writers, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, and short story writers.

Nature Writing

Don Scheese
Nature Writing Book PDF

Author : Don Scheese
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415938899

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Nature Writing by Don Scheese Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Visions of the Land

Michael A. Bryson
Visions of the Land Book PDF

Author : Michael A. Bryson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813921723

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Visions of the Land by Michael A. Bryson Pdf

The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.