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

By: Warren, James PerrinContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006Description: xiii, 266 p. : illSubject(s): 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 -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 814/.4 LOC classification: PS1227 | .W37 2006Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index.

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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