@article{1443691,
      recid = {1443691},
      author = {Smith, Laura},
      title = {Ecological restoration and the U.S. nature and  environmental writing tradition : a rewilding of American  letters /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxv, 348 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book presents a critical history of the intersections  between American environmental literature and ecological  restoration policy and practice. Through a  storyingrestoryingrestoring framework, this book explores  how entanglements between writers and places have produced  literary interventions in restoration politics. The book  considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by  writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists,  policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands  and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five  environmental writers and examines how their writings on  nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation,  and restoration have variously inspired and been translated  into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by  environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry  David Thoreau (18171862) at Walden Pond, John Muir  (18381914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold  (18871948) at his familys Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory  Stoneman Douglas (18901998) in the Everglades, and Edward  Abbey (19271989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines  environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy,  and politics in a commentary on considering (and  developing) environmental literatures place in  conversations on restoration ecology, ecological  restoration, and rewilding. Laura Smith is a lecturer in  Human Geography at the University of Exeter, U.K. She works  across cultural geography and the environmental humanities,  with research interests in ecological restoration and  rewilding, the history and conservation of U.S. public  lands, American literature, and environmental protest and  activism.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443691},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86148-3},
}