Title Visions of the land : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / Michael A. Bryson.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS169.E25 B79 2002	Available	---

Description	xvii, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
Series	Under the sign of nature
	Under the sign of nature.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
Contents	"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.
Subject	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
	Environmental literature.
	Literature and science -- United States -- History.
	Literature and science.
	United States.
	History.
	Environmental protection in literature.
	Environmental protection in literature.
	Wilderness areas in literature.
	Wilderness areas in literature.
	Landscapes in literature.
	Landscapes in literature.
	Ecology in literature.
	Ecology in literature.
	Nature in literature.
	Nature in literature.
ISBN	0813921074 paperback alkaline paper
	0813921066 alkaline paper