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Early American Nature Writers
Author | : Daniel Patterson,Roger Thompson,J. Scott Bryson |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780313346804 |
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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.
Great American Nature Writing
Author | : Joseph Wood Krutch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005610277 |
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A Natural History of Nature Writing
Author | : Frank Stewart |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-07-11 |
Genre | : 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
Author | : Thomas S. Edwards,Elizabeth A. De Wolfe |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1584650982 |
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A collection of new essays establishes women's voices as a powerful presence in US nature writing.
This Incomparable Land
Author | : Thomas Jefferson Lyon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111782632 |
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Nature writing is essential to awakening an ecological way of seeing. The author covers the full spectrum of the genre, including field guides, travel and adventure stories, and essays on solitary and back-country living. This new edition contains an updated bibliography of primary and secondary sources in nature writing through the end of the 20th century.
Conserving Words
Author | : Daniel J. Philippon |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082032759X |
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Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world.
American Earth
Author | : Bill McKibben |
Publsiher | : Literary Classics of United States |
Total Pages | : 1174 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:49015003394013 |
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Author and activist McKibben gathers the essential American writings that changed the way the public looks at the natural world. "American Earth" features essays by Walt Whitman, Rachel Carson, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Pollan, and dozens more.
Nature Writing
Author | : Don Scheese |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781134980772 |
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In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American writers. He documents the emergence of the modern form of nature writing as a reaction to industrialization. Scheese's personal observations of natural settings sharpen the reader's understanding of the dynamics between author and locale. His study is further informed by ample use of illustrations and close readings core writers such as Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Austin showing how each writer's work exemplifies the pastoral tradition and celebrate a spirit of place in the United States.