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From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
Autore Hallock Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography
Environmental policy - United States - History
Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8078-6165-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450702903321
Hallock Thomas  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
Autore Hallock Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography
Environmental policy - United States - History
Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
ISBN 979-88-908773-7-6
0-8078-6165-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777593903321
Hallock Thomas  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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From the fallen tree : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
From the fallen tree : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
Autore Hallock Thomas
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography
Environmental policy - United States - History
Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
ISBN 979-88-908773-7-6
0-8078-6165-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes -- Chronology -- Introduction: Closing the Wilderness, Opening the Frontier -- Meliorem Lapsa Locavit -- Ideas of Nature -- Notes -- Part I. The Western Text -- 1. The Imagined West: Lewis Evans -- A Path Taken Together: Lewis Evans and the Iroquois -- Lewis Evans and the Imagined West -- Thomas Pownall: Revising the Imagined West -- Conclusion: Natives, Nature, and Imperial Geography -- Notes -- 2. The Contested West: John Wilson's Kentucke -- Nature, Nation, and Natural History -- Daniel Boone and the Captive Environment -- Conclusion: ''Avail Yourselves of the Benefits of Nature'' -- Notes -- Part II. Improvement -- 3. Textual Boundaries, Discursive Control: Stories of the Land in the Susquehanna Valley -- ''Mammy Where Are We Going?'': The Limits of Frontier Prose in ''Susquehannah'' -- The ''Wyomen'' of Treaty Literature -- Notes -- 4. Jefferson's Nature and the Trans-Appalachian West: Notes on the State of Virginia -- Ideological Geography and the Disappearing West -- Jefferson, Logan, and the Vanishing Native -- Conclusion: ''Wherefore the Forgery?'' -- Notes -- Part III. Protégés -- 5. Collaboration, Incorporation, and Environmental Discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden -- Was That a Hoh-host or a Yâck-kâh? -- Fractures in an Imperial Narrative -- Collaboration, Incorporation, Triangulation -- Jane Colden and the Charleston Network -- Alexander Garden's Trip to the Cherokee Mountains -- Notes -- 6. On the Borders of a New World: William Bartram's Travels -- Four Ways of Looking at a Sinkhole: The Construction of a Literary Natural History -- Transformations, Personal and Political -- Four Views of the Alachua Savanna: The Ideological Work of Travels -- Notes -- Part IV. Settlement & -- Appropriation -- 7. Reversing the Revolution through Nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight.
Anne Grant's Colonial Ecology -- Marking Change, Registering Loss: Timothy Dwight's Travels -- The Roots of a Pastoral -- Notes -- 8. Disappearance and Romance: Cooper's The Pioneers -- Nature, Nostalgia, and Native Americans -- Romancing the Contact Zone -- ''This, Then, Is Thy Indian Blood?'': Becoming Native to Place -- Nostalgia, Guilt, and Nation Building -- Notes -- Coda: Parallel Republics -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-L -- M-P -- R-Y.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910820813303321
Hallock Thomas  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture / / edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham and Louise Squire
Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture / / edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham and Louise Squire
Autore Johns-Putra Adeline
Pubbl/distr/stampa Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina 823.0093553
Soggetto topico Environmental literature - History and criticism
Environmentalism in literature
Literature
Literature: History & Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato Literature
Sustainability
Environmentalism
History
Literacy Criticism
Thorium
ISBN 1-5261-0764-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley -- Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham -- Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby -- Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell -- Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster -- The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook -- Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips -- "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak -- The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra -- A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller -- Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths -- Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.
Record Nr. UNISA-996552364503316
Johns-Putra Adeline  
Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
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Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture / / edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham and Louise Squire
Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture / / edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham and Louise Squire
Autore Johns-Putra Adeline
Pubbl/distr/stampa Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina 823.0093553
Soggetto topico Environmental literature - History and criticism
Environmentalism in literature
Literature
Literature: History & Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato Literature
Sustainability
Environmentalism
History
Literacy Criticism
Thorium
ISBN 1-5261-0764-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley -- Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham -- Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby -- Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell -- Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster -- The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook -- Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips -- "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak -- The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra -- A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller -- Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths -- Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910219863803321
Johns-Putra Adeline  
Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
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Literature and the environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic
Literature and the environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic
Pubbl/distr/stampa Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3556
Altri autori (Persone) HartGeorge Leslie
SlovicScott <1960->
Collana Exploring social issues through literature
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Environmental protection in literature
Environmental policy in literature
Ecology in literature
Nature in literature
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-40936-0
9786612409363
0-313-06166-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Mary Austin, The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Webb -- Loren Eiseley, The immense journey (1957) / Kathleen Boardman -- Rachel Carson, Silent spring (1962) / Jane Detweiler -- Wallace Stegner, The sound of mountain water (1969) / Michael P. Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910454917603321
Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004
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Literature and the environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic
Literature and the environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic
Pubbl/distr/stampa Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3556
Altri autori (Persone) HartGeorge Leslie
SlovicScott <1960->
Collana Exploring social issues through literature
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Environmental protection in literature
Environmental policy in literature
Ecology in literature
Nature in literature
ISBN 1-282-40936-0
9786612409363
0-313-06166-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Mary Austin, The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Webb -- Loren Eiseley, The immense journey (1957) / Kathleen Boardman -- Rachel Carson, Silent spring (1962) / Jane Detweiler -- Wallace Stegner, The sound of mountain water (1969) / Michael P. Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910778527503321
Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004
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Literature and the environment / / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic
Literature and the environment / / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3556
Altri autori (Persone) HartGeorge Leslie
SlovicScott <1960->
Collana Exploring social issues through literature
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
Ecology in literature
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Environmental policy in literature
Environmental protection in literature
Nature in literature
ISBN 979-84-00-68010-6
1-282-40936-0
9786612409363
0-313-06166-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Mary Austin, The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Webb -- Loren Eiseley, The immense journey (1957) / Kathleen Boardman -- Rachel Carson, Silent spring (1962) / Jane Detweiler -- Wallace Stegner, The sound of mountain water (1969) / Michael P. Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910818280103321
Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004
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Visions of the land [[electronic resource] ] : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / / Michael A. Bryson
Visions of the land [[electronic resource] ] : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / / Michael A. Bryson
Autore Bryson Michael A. <1967->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/355
Collana Under the sign of nature
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States - History
Environmental protection in literature
Wilderness areas in literature
Landscapes in literature
Ecology in literature
Nature in literature
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-280-49068-3
9786613585912
0-8139-2172-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto "I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910457310103321
Bryson Michael A. <1967->  
Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2002
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Visions of the land [[electronic resource] ] : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / / Michael A. Bryson
Visions of the land [[electronic resource] ] : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / / Michael A. Bryson
Autore Bryson Michael A. <1967->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/355
Collana Under the sign of nature
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States - History
Environmental protection in literature
Wilderness areas in literature
Landscapes in literature
Ecology in literature
Nature in literature
ISBN 1-280-49068-3
9786613585912
0-8139-2172-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto "I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910781613403321
Bryson Michael A. <1967->  
Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2002
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