Visions of the land
Subtitle: science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology
By: Michael A. Bryson.
Series: Under the sign of nature
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Environmental literature -- History and criticism; Literature and science -- United States -- History; Environmental protection in literature; Wilderness areas in literature; Landscape in literature; Ecology in literature; Nature in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: "I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero; title: "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn; title: "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia; title: "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West; title: "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape; title: "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.