At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading.
Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rise of American Nature Writing
- Elizabeth Agassiz
- Louis Agassiz
- John James Audubon
- Florence Merriam Bailey
- John Bartram
- William Bartram
- Isabella Lucy Bird
- Neltje Blanchan
- John Bradbury
- William Byrd II
- George Catlin
- Susan Fenimore Cooper
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
- Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Eliza W. Farnham
- [Thomas] Wilson Flagg
- John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont
- William Hamilton Gibson
- Chandler Robbins Gilman
- John D. Godman, MD
- Louis Hennepin
- Francis Higginson
- John Edwards Holbrook
- Thomas Jefferson
- Peter (Pehr) Kalm
- Clarence King
- Thomas Starr King
- Caroline Kirkland
- John Lawson
- Joseph LeConte
- Graceanna Lewis
- Meriwether Lewis
- Olive Thorne Miller
- Thomas Nuttall
- Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
- John Wesley Powell
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
- Captain Charles Melville Scammon
- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- George Washington Sears
- Annie Trumbull Slosson
- Celia Laighton Thaxter
- Edith M. Thomas
- Henry David Thoreau
- Bradford Torrey
- John Kirk Townsend
- Mary (Davis) Treat
- Alexander Wilson
- Theodore Winthrop
- Elizabeth C.Wright
- Mabel Osgood Wright
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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