Rural Hours

Cooper, Susan Fenimore (author), Johnson, Rochelle and Patterson, Daniel (editors)

ISBN 10: 0820320005 / ISBN 13: 9780820320007

Verlag: The University of Georgia Press, Athens GA, 1998

Covers have heavy curling, minor wear and soil. Corners lightly rounded. Binding tight. No writing. xxiv + 352 pages including index. The daughter of James Fenimore Cooper describes her walks in nature and reveals her ideal society as a rural one poised between receding wilderness and looming industrialization. Size: 6 x 9. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 041423

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Rural Hours
Verlag: The University of Georgia Press, Athens GA
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair