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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451702403321

Autore

Warren James Perrin

Titolo

John Burroughs and the place of nature [[electronic resource] /] / James Perrin Warren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-72607-2

9786612726071

0-8203-3081-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

814/.4

Soggetti

Nature in literature

American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Natural history literature - United States - History

Natural history - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place --Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy.