The Fall into Eden
Subtitle: Landscape and Imagination in California (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 30, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521397513
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; American literature--California--History and; American literature--California--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American
First sentence: First sightings have a way of foreclosing the future, and a book may one day be attempted on the way our vision of the West has been arrested by those original acts through which its landscape was given a character and a name.