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Voices in the wilderness : American nature writing and environmental politics / Daniel G. Payne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hanover : University Press of New England, c1996.Description: 181 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0874517516 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780874517514 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0874517524 (paper : alk. paper)
  • 9780874517521 (paper : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE197 .P39 1996
Contents:
Ch. 1. Colonial and Early American Responses to the Wilderness -- Ch. 2. Emerson, Thoreau, and Environmental Reform -- Ch. 3. George Perkins Marsh and the Harmonies of Nature -- Ch. 4. As the Angels Have Departed: John Burroughs and the Religion of Nature -- Ch. 5. God of the Mountains: The Rhetoric and Religion of John Muir -- Ch. 6. Days of Wasteful Plenty Are Over: Theodore Roosevelt and His Environmental Legacies -- Ch. 7. Alone in a World of Wounds: The Question of Audience in A Sand County Almanac -- Ch. 8. New Environmentalism and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- Ch. 9. Monkey Wrenching, Environmental Extremism, and the Problematical Edward Abbey.
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Buffalo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Colonial and Early American Responses to the Wilderness -- Ch. 2. Emerson, Thoreau, and Environmental Reform -- Ch. 3. George Perkins Marsh and the Harmonies of Nature -- Ch. 4. As the Angels Have Departed: John Burroughs and the Religion of Nature -- Ch. 5. God of the Mountains: The Rhetoric and Religion of John Muir -- Ch. 6. Days of Wasteful Plenty Are Over: Theodore Roosevelt and His Environmental Legacies -- Ch. 7. Alone in a World of Wounds: The Question of Audience in A Sand County Almanac -- Ch. 8. New Environmentalism and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- Ch. 9. Monkey Wrenching, Environmental Extremism, and the Problematical Edward Abbey.