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Author:

Warren, James Perrin.

Title:

John Burroughs and the place of nature / James Perrin Warren.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xiii, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Burroughs, John,--1837-1921--Criticism and interpretation.
Muir, John,--1838-1914--Criticism and interpretation.
Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Natural history.--Natural history.
Burroughs, John,--1837-1921--Influence.
Nature in literature.
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Natural history literature--United States--History.
Natural history--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion : The place of elegy. Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place - Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : The place of elegy.

ISBN:

9780820327884
9780820327884 (alk. paper)
0820327883 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61141005

LCCN:

2005021230

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)