Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden

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Michael 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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First Voyage 14921493 and Narrative of the Third Voyage 14981500
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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
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Paul Dudley An Essay upon the Natural History of Whales 1724
125

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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).

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