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Author Warren, James Perrin.

Title John Burroughs and the place of nature [electronic resource] / James Perrin Warren.

Imprint Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

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Description xiii, 266 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index.
Contents Introduction : the power of place -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Knowledge -- 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0820327883 (alk. paper)

 
    
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