The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism) - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813939526 ISBN 13: 9780813939520

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. "The Best Read Naturalist" fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson’s lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections—made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays—reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson’s career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the "book of nature," a more environmentally connected thinker emerges—a "green" Emerson deeply concerned with the physical world and fascinated with the ability of science to reveal a correspondence between the order of nature and that of the mind. "The Best Read Naturalist" illuminates the vital influence that the study of natural history had on the development of Emerson’s mature philosophy.

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Michael P. Branch is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author or editor of numerous books, including Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness and John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa. Clinton Mohs is a doctoral student in English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of articles on American literatures of the long nineteenth century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813939526
• ISBN 13: 9780813939520
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
• Herausgeber: Branch Michael P., Mohs Clinton
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