Title: "An insect view of its plain" : insects, nature and God in Thoreau, Dickinson and Muir /
Authors: McTier, Rosemary Scanlon, 1970-
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, Knowledge Insects.; Dickinson, Emily, Knowledge Insects.; Muir, John, Knowledge Insects.; Insects in literature.; Nature in literature.; Naturalists United States.
Abstract: "This volume addresses that critical gap by exploring the cultural and literary position of insects in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir. It examines the beliefs these authors share about the nature of our connection to insects and what insects have to teach about creation and our place in it"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Textual abbreviations -- Introduction-Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir: interpreting the language of nature -- Insects and the nineteenth century -- "With microscopic eye": Thoreau's insect perspective -- "A minor nation": Emily Dickinson and the insects' society -- John Muir: translating "nature's book".