John Burroughs and the place of nature
Offers insights into the rise of the nature essay as a genre, the role of popular magazines as shapers and conveyors of public values, and the dynamism of place in terms of such opposed concepts as retreat and engagement, nature and culture, and wilderness and civilization.
History
1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations
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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