Rural Hours - Softcover

Cooper, Susan Fenimore; Johnson, Rochelle; Patterson, J. Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820320005 ISBN 13: 9780820320007

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Rural Hours (1850) is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woman. This new edition, the only printing of the full original text since 1876, restores passages excised by the author for an 1887 edition.

The daughter of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), uses narratives and descriptions of her walks and excursions to reveal her ideal society as a rural one, carefully poised between the receding wilderness and a looming industrialization. She theorizes that knowledge of place causes people to approach the land humbly and gratefully and asserts the necessity of establishing a society that is sustainable in the natural world and that sees a moral obligation to deepen knowledge of the natural history of the environment.

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Rochelle L. Johnson is a professor of English and environmental studies at the College of Idaho. She is a past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Daniel Patterson is professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Together they have also edited Cooper'sEssays on Nature and Landscape (Georgia) and Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on "Rural Hours" and Other Works (Georgia).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820320005
• ISBN 13: 9780820320007
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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