Reconnecting with John Muir essays in post-pastoral practice / [electronic resource] :
Terry Gifford.
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
- x, 201 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.
Keeping faith with the source -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- Muir's multiple discourses -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Muir, John, 1838-1914 --Appreciation--United States. Muir, John, 1838-1914 --Influence.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century Nature in literature. Environmentalism--History--United States--20th century. Pastoral literature, American--History and criticism. Mountaineering in literature. Ecocriticism.