A Terrible Beauty : the Wilderness of American Literature /

Shortly before he published Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau called "The library a wilderness of books." He also noted that while Americans were "clearing the forest in our westward progress, we are accumulating a forest of books in our rear, as wild and unexplored as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raskin, Jonah, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, California : Regent Press, 2014.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Wilderness areas > United States.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Réserves de la vie sauvage dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Environmentalism in literature
Wilderness areas
Wilderness areas in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ah, wilderness
  • Explorers & colonists: Sebastian Cabot, Henry Hudson, Robert Juet & William Bradford
  • Puritans: Roger Williams, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather & William Faulkner
  • Revolutionaries: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, J. Hector Crevecoueur, Philip Freneau & Washington Irving
  • Continental: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark & Sacagawea
  • Pioneers: James Fenimore Cooper's wild literary ride
  • Pale faces & redskins: Robert Baird, Catharine Sedgwick & Lydia Maria Child
  • Radicals: Margaret Fuller & Henry David Thoreau
  • Allegorical: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville & John Muir
  • Coquette: Emily Dickinson
  • Satirical: Mark Twain
  • Twentieth century & beyond: Jack London, Mary Austin, Willa Cather & F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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