Dark Eden
Subtitle: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780521375535
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Literary Criticism; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; American literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 19th century; American literature; History; History and criticism; Social aspects; Swamps; Swamps in literature; United States
First sentence: Recounting his visit to Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp in early spring of 1856, David Hunter Strother - better known to Americans as the peripatetic raconteur and illustrator Porte Crayon - presented readers of Harper's Monthly with the narrative of a magic inward quest.