LEADER 03600nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910788267303321 005 20161228111323.0 010 $a1-283-37333-5 010 $a9786613373335 010 $a0-472-02807-3 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.3678601 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046242 035 $a(OCoLC)769850826 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10520621 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600684 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11369013 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600684 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10602087 035 $a(PQKB)10419646 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.3678601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3415030 035 $a(iGPub)UMICHB0000591 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046242 100 $a20110616d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagining the forest $enarratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest /$fJohn Knott 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$dc2012. 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-472-05164-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-301) and index. 330 $a"Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early 19th century to the present. Our relationships with those forests have been shaped by the cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan-its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies-as an exemplary case. Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country.Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impeding the progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imagining the Forest shows the origin and development of both"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aForests in literature 606 $aForestry in literature 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aForests and forestry$zMichigan$xHistory 606 $aNatural history$zMichigan 607 $aMichigan$xIn literature 607 $aMiddle West$xIn literature 607 $aGreat Lakes Region (North America)$xDescription and travel 615 0$aForests in literature. 615 0$aForestry in literature. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aForests and forestry$xHistory. 615 0$aNatural history 676 $a810.9/358774 700 $aKnott$b John R$g(John Ray),$f1937-$0550156 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788267303321 996 $aImagining the forest$93858983 997 $aUNINA