Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before WaldenMichael P. Branch University of Georgia Press, 2004 - 408 страници 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. |
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... John Smith , A Description of New England ( 1616 ) and The General History of Virginia ( 1624 ) / 51 William Wood , New England's Prospect ( 1634 ) / 57 Thomas Morton , The New English Canaan ( 1637 ) / 63 Anne Bradstreet , Meditations ...
... John Winthrop , A Lecture on Earthquakes ( 1755 ) / 156 Pedro Font , Font's Complete Diary ( 1775-1776 / 1933 ) / 161 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur , Letters from an American Farmer ( 1782 ) / 166 John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth , A ...
... John James Audubon , Ornithological Biography ( 1831-1839 ) / 266 Ralph Waldo Emerson , " The Uses of Natural History " ( 1833 ) 273 John D. Godman , Rambles of a Naturalist ( 1833 ) / 280 Washington Irving , A Tour on the Prairies ...
... John C. Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont , Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 , and to Oregon and North California in 1843-1844 ( 1845 ) / 347 George Copway ( Kah - ge - ga - gah - bowh ) ...
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First Voyage 14921493 and Narrative of the Third Voyage 14981500 | 3 |
Pietro Martire dAnghiera De Orbe Novo 15111530 | 14 |
The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 1542 | 29 |
Newfound Land of Virginia 1588 | 46 |
Thomas Morton The New English Canaan 1637 | 63 |
Jasper Danckaerts Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour | 79 |
Sarah Kemble Knight The Journal of Madam Knight 170417051825 | 95 |
Beauty of the World 1725 | 118 |
Letters from an American Farmer 1782 | 166 |
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | 203 |
Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi 1826 | 247 |
Nicolas Point Recollections of the Rocky Mountains 184018471967 | 314 |
George Catlin Letters and Notes on the Manners Customs | 320 |
The Life History and Travels of Kahgegagahbowh a Young Indian Chief | 353 |
of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah 1852 | 371 |
Paul Dudley An Essay upon the Natural History of Whales 1724 | 125 |