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title	:	Voices in the Wilderness : American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics
author	:	Payne, Daniel G.
publisher	:	University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin	:	0874517516
print isbn13	:	9780874517514
ebook isbn13	:	9780585269986
language	:	English
subject	Environmentalism--United States--Authorship, United States--Environmental conditions--History, Environmentalists--United States, Philosophy of nature.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	GE197.P39 1996eb
ddc	:	333.7/2/092273
subject	:	Environmentalism--United States--Authorship, United States--Environmental conditions--History, Environmentalists--United States, Philosophy of nature.

Page iii Voices in the Wilderness American Nature Writing and Environmental Polities Daniel G. Payne

Page iv University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1996 by University Press of New England All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book

Page v For Anne and our little ones, Rebecca Caitlin and Emily Rachel

Page vii Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature? He would be a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his service, to speak for him; who nailed words to their primitive senses, as farmers drive down stakes in the spring, which the frost has heaved; who derived his words as often as he used them,transplanted them to his page with earth adhering to their roots; whose words were so true and fresh and natural that they would appear to expand like the buds at the approach of spring, though they lay half-smothered between two musty leaves in a library,ay, to bloom and bear fruit there, after their kind, annually, for the faithful reader, in sympathy with surrounding Nature. Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"

Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Colonial and Early American Responses to the Wilderness 9 Chapter 2 Emerson, Thoreau, and Environmental Reform 29 Chapter 3 George Perkins Marsh and the Harmonies of Nature 55 Chapter 4 As the Angels Have Departed: John Burroughs and the Religion of Nature 68 Chapter 5 The God of the Mountains: The Rhetoric and Religion of John Muir 84 Chapter 6 The Days of Wasteful Plenty are Over: Theodore Roosevelt and His Environmental Legacies 106 Chapter 7 Alone in a World of Wounds: The Question of Audience in A Sand County Almanac 123 Chapter 8 The New Environmentalism and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring 136 Chapter 9 Monkey Wrenching, Environmental Extremism, and the Problematical Edward Abbey 152 Conclusion 167 Index 177

Page xi Acknowledgments My special thanks go to those who guided me through the critical early stages of this project. Marcus Klein (SUNY Buffalo) contributed both his scholarly insight into the literary works I was examining and an unerring sense of the focus and direction of the project as a whole. His mentorship and friendly advice have beenand continue to beinvaluable. Robert Newman (SUNY Buffalo) and John Elder (Middlebury College) were extraordinarily sympathetic readers whose contributions were myriad. I came back to the discussions that Bob and I had on the uses of biography and autobiography many times in the course of my research and writing. I was truly privileged to be able to draw upon John Elder's vast knowledge of American nature writing and have benefited immensely from his kind mentorship as well as his own scholarly work, which I greatly admire. Thanks go also to Dick Ellis (SUNY Buffalo), who provided a historian's perspective, and to John Tallmadge (Union Institute), whose expertise and encouragement meant so much to me as I plodded through seemingly never-ending revisions. The editorial staff at the University Press of New England have been extraordinarily helpful, especially Mike Lowenthal, who got the project moving toward publication, and David Caffry, whose good humor and steady hand guided me surely through the editorial process. I would also like to thank my wife, Anne, whose encouragement and support made this work possible, and my parents, Herb and Helen, who always believed. Finally, thanks go to Bob and Liz, Jim, George, JZ, Ken, and Joe, who accompanied me on numerous backpacking trips to the Adirondacks, the White Mountains, and the Green Mountains, all under the guise of "Fieldwork." As John Muir wrote, mere words will not suffice to describe the wonders of natureone must "come to the mountains and see."

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