Constructing nature : readings from the American experience / edited by Richard Jenseth, Edward E. Lotto.
Jenseth, Richard.; Lotto, Edward E.
1996
PE1417 .C6519 1996 (Mapit)
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Title
Constructing nature : readings from the American experience / edited by Richard Jenseth, Edward E. Lotto.
ISBN
0132908751 (pbk.)
9780132908757 (pbk.)
0134001109 (pbk.)
9780134001104 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1996.
Language
English
Description
xi, 493 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PE1417 .C6519 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
808/.0427
Summary
This work is a reader on nature that presents substantial, complex readings within the context of American culture. Assignment sequences have been provided to help readers learn to write on a single subject from a variety of perspectives. The reading selections are organized chronologically and focus exclusively on the concept of nature in America. Readers thus can see how nature has been viewed historically, from the time of the exploration of the new world to the present day. A major section on the current environment movement allows readers to connect their work with what is happening in the world right now. -- From publisher.
Note
"A Blair Press book."
Includes index.
Added Author
Jenseth, Richard.
Lotto, Edward E.
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"New World" encounters : Late fifteenth to early nineteenth century / Christopher Columbus ; Bartolome de las Casas ; Thomas Jefferson ; J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur ; William Bartram ; John James Audubon ; William Cullen Bryant
Nature, self, and spirit : middle and late nineteenth century / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Henry David Thoreau ; Walt Whitman ; Emily Dickinson ; Isabella L. Bird ; Sarah Orne Jewett
Contesting the uses of nature ; early to middle twentieth century / Theodore Roosevelt ; Gifford Pinchot ; John Burroughs ; Aldo Leopold ; Rachel Carson
Constructing nature in words : recent poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction / Jack Kerouac ; N. Scott Momaday ; Edward Abbey ; Norman Maclean ; Annie Dillard ; Leslie Marmom Silko ; Gretel Erhrlich ; Sandra Alcosser ; Dana Gioia ; William Matthews ; Mary Oliver
Responses to the current environmental crisis / Ernst Callenbach ; Al Gore ; Paula DiPerna ; Barry Lopez ; John McPhee ; Carolyn Merchant ; P.J. O'Rourke ; Michael Pollan ; Rik Scarce. Includes index.

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