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Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing : Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez
author
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Slovic, Scott.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874803624
print isbn13
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9780874803624
ebook isbn13
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9780585106557
language
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English
subject
American literature--History and criticism, Natural history--United States--Historiography, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Influence, Nature in literature.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PS163.S56 1992eb
ddc
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810.9/36
subject
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American literature--History and criticism, Natural history--United States--Historiography, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Influence, Nature in literature.
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Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing
Henry Thoreau Annie Dillard Edward Abbey Wendell Berry Barry Lopez
Scott Slovic
University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
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Copyright 1992 University of Utah Press All rights reserved
The paper in this book meets the standards for permanence and durability established by the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Slovic, Scott, 1960 Seeking awareness in American nature writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dilliard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez / Scott Slovic. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87480-362-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. American literature-History and criticism. 2. Nature in literature. 3. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862-Influence. I. Title. PS163.S56 1992 810.9'36dc20 91-24313 CIP
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To Analinda and Jacinto
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Contents
Acknowledgements
viii
1. Introduction: Approaches to the Psychology of Nature Writing
3
2. The Inner Life and the Outer World: Thoreau's "Habit of Attention" in His Private Journal
21
3. Sudden Feelings: Annie Dillard's Psychology
61
4. "Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear": The Aestheticism of Edward Abbey
93
5. Coming Home to "the Camp": Wendell Berry's Watchfulness
115
6. "A More Particularized Understanding": Seeking Qualitative Awareness in Barry Lopez's Artic Dreams
137
7. Coda: Excurisons and Incursions
167
Works Cited
187
Index
197
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Acknowledgements
Though completed among the live oaks and prickly pears of Central Texas, this project began in the bookish surroundings of the Horace Mann Building at Brown University. A University Fellowship at Brown in the fall of 1989 allowed me to write the early chapters without much interruption. Many individuals at Brown also supported this project, either through direct response to my ideas or through less tangible forms of encouragement. In particular, I would like to thank Barton L. St. Armand for his "cordial" and stimulating mentorship. Mutlu K. Blasing and Geroge P. Landow provided important advice at the early stages of my writing. The Americanists' Reading Group, which listened to a trial version of the Annie Dillard chapter, offered lively human contact as a break from self-absorbed writing during my final year at Brown.
There are many other friends and scholars around the country who deserve thanks for listening to my speeches about nature writing, which were sometimes solicited and many times not. Thanks, especially, to Alicia Nitecki of Bentley College for the invitation to talk about Annie Dillard at the 1989 Society for Literature and Science Conference, and to Terrell Dixon of the University of Houston for giving me similar forums to pitch my ideas about Wendell Berry (the 1990 North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference) and Edward Abbey (the 1990 College English Association Convention). I presented an early draft of the chapter on Barry Lopez at the 1990 Twentieth-Century Literature Conference in Louisville. While writing this book, I also benefited from talks and correspondence with Ken-ichi Noda, John Daniel, John Elder, Robert Finch, Edward Hoagland, Lawrence Buell, Glen Love, William Rossi, Paul Bryant, Betsy Hilbert, Don Scheese, Cheryll Burgess, Sean O'Grady, and other members of the growing community of "nature readers." John Tallmadge provided insightful and generously detailed criticism of the manu-
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script. More recently I have enjoyed the encouragement of my colleagues in the English Department at Southwest Texas State University and the members of The Live Oak Society, an interdisciplinary environmental reading group on campus. Miles Wilson chipped in with excellent editorial advice at the last minute.
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