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Donaldson, Elizabeth J.

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Picturesque scenes, sentimental creatures: The rhetoric and politics of American nature writing, 1890-1920.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Picturesque scenes, sentimental creatures: The rhetoric and politics of American nature writing, 1890-1920./
作者:	Donaldson, Elizabeth J.
面頁冊數:	222 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-08, Section: A, page: 3130.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-08A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9807405
ISBN:	9780591576863

Picturesque scenes, sentimental creatures: The rhetoric and politics of American nature writing, 1890-1920.
Donaldson, Elizabeth J.

Picturesque scenes, sentimental creatures: The rhetoric and politics of American nature writing, 1890-1920. - 222 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-08, Section: A, page: 3130.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997.

Although literary historians often identify Thoreau as the original source of American nature writing, Thoreau's work is part of a tradition of literature about nature that extends back to the early moments of European contact with the American wilderness. American nature writing begins with colonial promotional literature, which advertised the bounty of the American wilderness for a European audience, and includes the literature of exploration and discovery, which charted new territories and catalogued the natural resources of uncolonized lands. Later, the completion of the transcontinental railroads and the success of western development made possible a new appreciation of wilderness and natural scenery. Replacing the emigrant guides and exploration narratives at the close of the frontier, travel literature rendered nature and natural scenes and cultivated a growing audience of potential leisure tourists. Therefore, American nature writing, as it transformed from a literature of exploration, which catalogued natural commodities, to a literature of travel, which valorized the beauty of nature, reflects the course of American empire.

ISBN: 9780591576863Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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520 $a Nature books of the Progressive era, while representing natural objects and the American landscape, often promulgate nationalism, expansionism, and the cultivation of American civil and domestic order. As a close reading of the travel literature and nature essays of John Charles Van Dyke, John Muir, and Frederick Law Olmsted illustrates, the scenic appreciation of nature, far from being a force of opposition to wilderness development, shared the ethic of material expansionism and social progress characteristic of this era. The politics of nature and nation, which are so clearly evident in nature essays and landscape paintings extolling the visual pleasure of natural observation, also structured animal observation. The growing popularity of nature study and animal stories eventually led to John Burroughs' and Theodore Roosevelt's involvement in the nature fakers controversy, a backlash against sentimental animal observation. An examination of popular ornithology and the essays of scribbling women birdwatchers reveals the underlying gender politics of this controversy. This project highlights previously neglected socio-political aspects of nature writing.
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