From the fallen tree : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hallock, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Historiography.
Environmental policy > United States > History.
Environmental policy > West (U.S.) > History.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Pastoral literature, American > History and criticism.
Environmental literature > History and criticism.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Littérature pastorale américaine > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Environmental literature
Environmental policy
Frontier and pioneer life > Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Historiography
Pastoral literature, American
Travel
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
États-Unis > Descriptions et voyages.
United States
West United States
Litteratur > Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Closing the wilderness, opening the frontier
  • I: The western text
  • 1. The imagined west: Lewis Evans
  • 2. The contested west: John Filson's Kentucke
  • II: Improvement
  • 3. Textual boundaries, discursive control: stories of the land in the Susquehanna Valley
  • 4. Jefferson's nature and the Trans-Appalachian west: notes on the state of Virginia
  • III: Protégés
  • 5. Collaboration, incorporation, and environmental discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden
  • 6. On the borders of a new world: William Bartram's Travels
  • IV: Settlement and appropriation
  • 7. Reversing the revolution through nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight
  • 8. Disappearance and romance: Cooper's The Pioneers.

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