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John Burroughs and the place of nature

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Main Author: Warren, James Perrin
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Burroughs, John, > 1837-1921 > Criticism and interpretation.
Muir, John, > 1838-1914 > Criticism and interpretation.
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Burroughs, John, > 1837-1921 > Influence.
Nature in literature.
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Natural history literature > United States > History.
Natural history > United States > History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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