Reading Nature: The Evolution of American Nature Writing - Brossura

Farnsworth, John Seibert

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ISBN 10: 1611865352 ISBN 13: 9781611865356

Casa editrice: Michigan State University Press, 2025

Riassunto

Reading Nature highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States. It explores how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes and how the genre evolved over 163 years, beginning with the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in 1854. The volume also examines Mary Austin’s Land of Little Rain (1903), John Burroughs’s Ways of Nature (1905), Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949), Rachel Carson’s The Sea around Us (1951), Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire (1968), Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge (1991), Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), and J. Drew Lanham’s The Home Place (2016). This book features a series of close readings exploring how these authors transformed popular understanding of the natural world.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Michigan State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1611865352
• ISBN 13: 9781611865356
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 155
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile