04617nam 2200757Ia 450 991082243840332120240516103856.01-58729-311-0(CKB)111056486862688(EBL)837099(OCoLC)50175130(SSID)ssj0000258998(PQKBManifestationID)11192462(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258998(PQKBWorkID)10272364(PQKB)11351557(MiAaPQ)EBC837099(MdBmJHUP)muse9320(Au-PeEL)EBL837099(CaPaEBR)ebr10354571(EXLCZ)9911105648686268819991109d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThoreau's sense of place essays in American environmental writing /edited by Richard J. Schneider; foreword by Lawrence Buell1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20001 online resource (325 p.)The American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-720-4 0-87745-708-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.Acknowledgments; Foreword by Lawrence Buell; Introduction; Believing in Nature Wilderness and Wildness in Thoreauvian Science laura dassow wa l l s; Thoreau's Transcendental Ecocentrism william r o s s i; ''Climate Does Thus React on Man'' Wildness and Geographic Determinism in Thoreau's ''Walking'' richard j . schneider; ''In Search of a More Human Nature'' Wendell Berry's Revision of Thoreau's Experiment ted olson; Water-Signs Place and Metaphor in Dillard and Thoreau james a . papa, j r .; The WrittenWorld Place and History in Thoreau's ''A Walk to Wachusett'' david m . robinsonThoreau, Thomas Cole, and Asher Durand Composing the American Landscape i s a i a h smithsonReading Home Thoreau, Literature, and the Phenomenon of Inhabitation peter blakemore; Seeing the West Side of Any Mountain Thoreau and Contemporary Ecological Poetry j . scott bryson; TenWays of Seeing Landscapes in ""Walden"" and Beyond james g . mcgrath; Sauntering in the IndustrialWilderness bernard w. quetchenbach; ""Walden,"" ""Rural Hours,"" and the Dilemma of Representation rochelle johnson; Wordsworth and Thoreau Two Versions of Pastoral greg garrardHumanity as ''A Part and Parcel of Nature'' A Comparative Study of Thoreau's and Taoist Concepts of Nature aimin chengSpeaking for Nature Thoreau and the ''Problem'' of ''Nature Writing'' nancy craig simmons; Depopulation, Deforestation, and the ActualWalden Pond robert sattelmeyer; Skirting Lowell The ExceptionalWork of Nature inAWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers stephen germic; Rustling Thoreau's Cattle Wildness and Domesticity in ''Walking'' barbara "barney" nelson; Counter Frictions Writing and Activism in the Work of Abbey and Thoreau susan m . lucas; contributors; works citedindexRecent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the green"" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how ""green,"" how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America?American land and life series.Environmental protectionUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticismNatural historyUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmental protection in literaturePlace (Philosophy) in literatureNature in literatureSetting (Literature)Environmental protectionHistory.American literatureHistory and criticism.Natural historyHistory.Environmental protection in literature.Place (Philosophy) in literature.Nature in literature.Setting (Literature)818.309818/.309Schneider Richard J1595191MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822438403321Thoreau's sense of place3916016UNINA