Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden - Paperback
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Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden - Paperback
$43.67
by Michael P. Branch (Author)
Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants.
The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.Author Biography
Michael P. Branch, professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, is cofounder and past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and book review editor of the journal "ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment." The author of numerous articles and reviews, he is also editor of "John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa" and co-editor of "The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley," "Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment," and "The ISLE Reader" (Georgia).
Number of Pages: 430
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.18 x 6.46 IN
Publication Date: January 01, 2003
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