Bryson, Michael A., 1967-

Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / [electronic resource] : Michael A. Bryson. - Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002. - xvii, 228 p. - Under the sign of nature . - Under the sign of nature. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.

"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.


Electronic reproduction.
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2013.
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American literature--History and criticism.
Environmental literature--History and criticism.
Literature and science--History.--United States
Environmental protection in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.


Electronic books.

PS169.E25 / B79 2002eb

810.9/355

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