Book ID: CBB000110590

Thoreau's sense of place: Essays in American environmental writing (2000)

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Schneider, Richard J. (Editor)


University of Iowa Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: x + 310 pp., illus., map
Language: English

Description Contents: Laura Dassow Walls, Believing in nature: Wilderness and wildness in Thoreauvian science; William Rossi, Thoreau's transcendental ecocentrism; Richard J. Schneider, “Climate does thus react on man”: Wildness and geographic determinism in Thoreau's “Walking”; Ted Olson, “In search of a more human nature”: Wendell Berry's revision of Thoreau's experiment; Papa, James A., Jr., Water-signs: Place and metaphor in Dillard and Thoreau; David M. Robinson, Written world: Place and history in Thoreau's “A Walk to Wachusett”; Isaiah Smithson, Thoreau, Thomas Cole, and Asher Durand: Composing the American landscape.


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Authors & Contributors
Moynihan, Thomas
Grant, Iain Hamilton
Thorson, Robert M
Santoro, Lily A.
Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin
Warren, James Perrin
Concepts
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Natural history
Ecology
Biology
Environmentalism
Animal ecology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
United States
Germany
New England (U.S.)
Great Plains (North America)
Colorado (U.S.)
Rocky Mountains (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
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