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Literature of Nature is a reference work that explores the diversity of genres, modes, and orientations of literary representations of nature and of human interaction with the rest of the natural world. Comprising 65 essays, Literature of Nature is organized into five geographic sections: the U.S. and Canada; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Africa and the Arab world; and Latin America. A sixth section is devoted to Topics, Genres, Theory, and Other Arts. The diversity and international scope of the essays are represented in a wide variety of chapter formats: contributors were encouraged to adopt layouts most appropriate to their subjects, with a stylistic diversity modeling natural diversity. Literature of Nature is meant to appeal to a broad range of users, including students, librarians, and the general reader interested in knowing more about such literature. At the same time scholars of literature will find the volume of great interest and the bibliographies especially useful.

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Page iii Literature of Nature An International Sourcebook Edited by - photo 1
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Literature of Nature
An International Sourcebook
Edited by
Patrick D. Murphy
Contributing Editors
Terry Gifford
Katsunori Yamazato
Literature of Nature An International Sourcebook - image 2
FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS
CHICAGO LONDON
title:Literature of Nature : An International Sourcebook
author:Murphy, Patrick D.; Gifford, Terry.; Yamazato, Katsunori.
publisher:Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin:1579580106
print isbn13:9781579580100
ebook isbn13:9780585088983
language:English
subjectNature in literature.
publication date:1998
lcc:PN48.L58 1998eb
ddc:809/.9336
subject:Nature in literature.
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This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set ( http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif ), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks.
Copyright 1998 by Patrick D. Murphy
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
For information write to:
FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS
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Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress and the British Library
ISBN 1-57958-010-6
First published in the USA and UK 1998
Typeset and printed by Braun-Brumfield, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cover designed by Peter Aristedes
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CONTENTS
Preface
xi
Editor's Note and Guide to Usage
xiii
Essays
Section 1: The United States and Canada
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"Writing About Nature in Early America: From Discovery to 1850"
RochelleJohnsonAndDanielPatterson
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"Early American Natural Histories"
PaulLindholdt
13
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"Science and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century American Nature Literature"
LauraDassowWalls
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"Terror in the Heartland: Representations of the American Great Plains, 1930-1940"
BradLookingbill
26
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"'The World is the Greatest Thing in the World': The Objectivists' 'Immanent' Pastoral"
JudithSchwartz
32
Picture 8
"Literary Environmentalists in the Generation Before Silent Spring, 1945-1960"
RichardHarmondandG. A. Cevasco
37
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"The World of the Beats and Others"
BarrySilesky
45
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"Writers of the Adirondacks"
GlennSandifordandJohnCooley
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"Four Case Studies in Southern Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley"
MichaelP. BranchandDanielJ. Philippon
59
Picture 12
"Garden Writing in the South"
KarenCole
64
Picture 13
"Literary Nonfiction Writing of the American Desert"
AndreaWHerrmann
70
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"Women's Resistance in the Desert West"
Susanne
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