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Coming Through the Swamp : The Nature Writings of Gene Stratton Porter
author
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Stratton-Porter, Gene.; Plum, Sydney Landon.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874804973
print isbn13
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9780874804973
ebook isbn13
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9780585129600
language
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English
subject
Natural history, Nature stories.
publication date
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1996
lcc
:
QH81.S8725 1996eb
ddc
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813/.52
subject
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Natural history, Nature stories.
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Coming Through the Swamp
The Nature Writings of Gene Stratton Porter
Edited and with an introduction by Sydney Landon Plum
University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
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1996 by the University of Utah Press All rights reserved. 5 4 3 2 1 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924. Coming through the swamp : the nature writing of Gene Stratton Porter / edited and with an introduction by Sydney Landon Plum. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-87480-497-3 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-87480-498-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Natural history. 2. Nature stories. I. Plum, Sydney Landon. II. Title. QH81.S8725 1996 813'.52dc20 95-48024
Paperback cover photograph: "Moths of the Carnival" (Eacles imperiales: the Yellow Emperor) Frontispiece: "Coming Through the Swamp"Gene Stratton Porter Book design by Richard Firmage
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To Terry, Trevor and Hilary and Charity who keep me moving on
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
xi
"A Wonder Tale" from Tales You Won't Believe
1
"Earning a Title" and "A Gift of the Birds" from Homing With the Birds
8
"What Birds Say and Sing" from Homing With the Birds
23
"Song of the Cardinal" from The Song of the Cardinal
33
"The Blue Heron" from What I Have Done With Birds
43
"Black Vulture" from What I Have Done With Birds
48
"Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends" from Freckles
55
"Wherein Margaret Sinton Reveals a Secret... "from A Girl of the Limberlost
64
"The Robin Moth," "The Yellow Emperor," and ''Hera of the Corn" from Moths of the Limberlost
82
"Shall We Save Natural Beauty?" from Let Us Highly Resolve
105
"Songs of the Fields" from Music of the Wild
110
"When the Geese Fly North," "The Bride of Red Wing Lake," and "The Lost White Wild Strawberries" from Tales You Won't Believe
135
Chronology
160
Select Bibliography
163
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Preface
This collection has been published in order to introduce the naturalist Gene Stratton Porter to a contemporary audience. Although a United States president (Theodore Roosevelt) acknowledged her importance to the conservation movement, an influential critic (William Lyon Phelps) hailed her as an institution, and millions of her contemporaries read her writings, seventy years after her death it is difficult to find copies of her work in print. Even when her books are found, her work as a naturalist continues to be overshadowed by the popularity of her novels. Bertrand F. Richards, one of her biographers, bemoans the neglect of her nature writings, particularly chastising Joseph Wood Krutch for leaving her out of his 1950 anthology of American nature writing. Only one naturalist, Annie Dillard, included a Stratton Porter workMoths of the Limberlostin her booklist that was part of the 1986 publication On Nature: Nature, Landscape, and Natural History.
I have selected the pieces included here because they represent the body of natural history writing produced by Gene Stratton Porter, because they mention or develop themes of interest to contemporary readers of natural history, and because of their quality. I have tried to represent the breadth of Stratton Porter's work while offering some assistance to those making their way through the quite extensive body of her writing. The essay which introduces the collection is intended as such a guide, not as a definitive biographical or critical study. I have taken the liberty of including lengthy excerpts in the essay from workssome of which are quite obscurewhich I did not include in their entirety.
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