The Natures Of John And William Bartram

Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004208081

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The Natures of John and William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter Pdf

"John Bartram was the greatest horticulturist and botanist of eighteenth-century America, a farmer-philosopher who won the patronage of King George III and Benjamin Franklin. His son William was a pioneering naturalist who documented his travels though the Florida wilderness in prose and drawings that inspired a generation of romantic poets." "As he follows the Bartrams through their respective careers - and through the tenderness and disappointment of the father-son relationship - Slaughter examines the ways in which each viewed the natural world: as a resource to be exploited, as evidence of divine providence, as a temple in which all life was interconnected and sacred."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517268167

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The Natures of John and William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter Pdf

The nature of early America as seen through the eyes of a father and son, two 18th-century botanical explorers and their natures as men is explored thoroughly throughout the pages of this book. Slaughter plumbs the depths of the Bartrams' natures and tells a story about what it meant to be men who sought purpose and meaning in the verdant wilderness that still covered much of North America. 15 illustrations. 2 maps.

Author : Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Charlotte M. Porter
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817355715

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Fields of Vision by Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Charlotte M. Porter Pdf

A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. The book, based on his journey across the South, reflects a remarkable coming of age. In 1773, Bartram departed his family home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a British colonist; in 1777, he returned as a citizen of an emerging nation of the United States. The account of his journey, published in 1791, established a national benchmark for nature writing and remains a classic of American literature, scientific writing, and history. Brought up as a Quaker, Bartram portrayed nature through a poetic lens of experience as well as scientific observation, and his work provides a window on 18th-century southern landscapes. Particularly enlightening and appealing are Bartram’s detailed accounts of Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee peoples. The Bartram Trail Conference fosters Bartram scholarship through biennial conferences held along the route of his travels. This richly illustrated volume of essays, a selection from recent conferences, brings together scholarly contributions from history, archaeology, and botany. The authors discuss the political and personal context of his travels; species of interest to Bartram; Creek architecture; foodways in the 18th-century south, particularly those of Indian groups that Bartram encountered; rediscovery of a lost Bartram manuscript; new techniques for charting Bartram’s trail and imaging his collections; and a fine analysis of Bartram’s place in contemporary environmental issues.

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820328774

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William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design by William Bartram Pdf

This work presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486138664

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Travels of William Bartram by William Bartram Pdf

First inexpensive, illustrated edition of early classic on American geography, plants, Indians, wildlife, early settlers. Influenced Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Chateaubriand. "A book of extraordinary beauty." — The New York Times. 13 illustrations.

Author : Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher : Pineapple Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781561647859

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John and William Bartram by Sandra Wallus Sammons Pdf

A juvenile biography of father and son, John and William Bartram, naturalists who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in America. The Bartrams were America's first native botanists, father and son travelers, plant hunters, and master gardeners. They traveled the east coast and observed and wrote about the nature they found. Their story is full of adventure and curiosity. Their interests took them on wide travels, including through Florida in 1774. William Bartram's most famous book is Travels, which is of particular interest for its early description and drawings of Florida. His book is an important part of Florida's early records. This is seventh book in Pineapple Press's Young Readers series of biographies of famous people who influenced Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Author : John Gatta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199883103

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Making Nature Sacred by John Gatta Pdf

Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have repeatedly perceived in nature something beyond itself-and beyond themselves. In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Whatever their theology, American writers have perennially construed the nonhuman world to be a source, in Rachel Carson's words, of "something that takes us out of ourselves." Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for "natural revelation" has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history. And it shows how the imaginative challenge of "reading" landscapes has been influenced by biblical hermeneutics. Though focused on adaptations of Judeo-Christian religious traditions, it also samples Native American, African American, and Buddhist forms of ecospirituality. It begins with Colonial New England writers such Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards, re-examines pivotal figures such as Henry Thoreau and John Muir, and takes account of writings by Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, and many others along the way. The book concludes with an assessment of the "spiritual renaissance" underway in current environmental writing, as represented by five noteworthy poets and by authors such as Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Matthiessen, and Barry Lopez. This engaging study should appeal not only to students of literature, but also to those interested in ethics and environmental studies, religious studies, and American cultural history.

Author : Robert Sayre,Michael Löwy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000721768

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Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature by Robert Sayre,Michael Löwy Pdf

Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of different areas: travel writing, painting, utopian vision, cultural studies, political philosophy, and activist socio-political writing. The authors discuss a highly diverse group of figures - William Bartram, Thomas Cole, William Morris, Walter Benjamin, Raymond Williams, and Naomi Klein - from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. They are rooted individually in English, American, and German cultures, but share a common perspective: the romantic protest against modern bourgeois civilisation and its destruction of the natural environment. Although a rich ecocritical literature has developed since the 1990s, particularly in the United States and Britain, that addresses many aspects of ecology and its intersection with romanticism, they almost exclusively focus on literature, and define romanticism as a limited literary period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This study is one of the first to suggest a much broader view of the romantic relation to ecological discourse and representation, covering a range of cultural creations and viewing romanticism as a cultural critique, or protest against capitalist-industrialist modernity in the name of past, pre-modern, or pre-capitalist values. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecology, romanticism, and the history of capitalism.

Author : Daniel Patterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1883011116

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William Bartram: Travels & Other Writings (LOA #84) by William Bartram Pdf

A collection of the author's works on traveling in the Southern States in 18th century, and other writings.

Author : Matthew Wynn Sivils
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

Author : Andrew Linzey,Clair Linzey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197655542

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Animal Theologians by Andrew Linzey,Clair Linzey Pdf

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some of the most celebrated religious thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and Paul Tillich. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions. The editors have brought together Jewish, Unitarian, Christian, transcendentalist, Muslim, Hindu, Dissenting, deist, and Quaker voices, each offering a unique theological perspective that counters the neglect of the nonhuman. Animal Theologians is divided into three parts starting with the pioneers who first saw a relationship between animals and divinity, those who contributed to the expansion of social sensibility to animals, and ending with the work of contemporary theologians. The essays in this volume use contextual and historical background to describe what led animal theologians to their beliefs, and then pave way for further developments in this expanding field. This volume is an act of reclaiming different religious traditions for animals by recovering lost voices.

Author : Thomas Hallock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807861653

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From the Fallen Tree by Thomas Hallock Pdf

Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession, the author demonstrates how authors explored the idea of wilderness and political identities in fully populated frontiers. Hallock provides an alternative to the myth of a vacant wilderness found in later writings. Emphasizing shared cultures and conflict in the border regions, he reconstructs the milieu of Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, William Bartram, and James Fenimore Cooper, as well as lesser-known figures such as Lewis Evans, Jane Colden, Anne Grant, and Elias Boudinot. State papers, treaty documents, maps, and journals provide a rich backdrop against which Hallock reinterprets the origins of a pastoral tradition. Combining the new western history, ecological criticism, and native American studies, Hallock uncovers the human stories embedded in descriptions of the land. His historicized readings offer an alternative to long-accepted myths about the vanishing backcountry, the march of civilization, and a pristine wilderness. The American pastoral, he argues, grew from the anxiety of independent citizens who became colonizers themselves.

Author : John Bartram,William Bartram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B5022537

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John and William Bartram's America by John Bartram,William Bartram Pdf

Author : Thomas Blake Earle,D. Andrew Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820356471

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Atlantic Environments and the American South by Thomas Blake Earle,D. Andrew Johnson Pdf

There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery, gender, climate, “colonial ecological revolution,” manipulation of the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By centering this project on a region, the American South—defined as the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean— the authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of “Atlantic” and “southern” and their intersection with “environments” is a discipline-defining strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural networks.