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Author	Warren, James Perrin.
Title	John Burroughs and the place of nature / James Perrin Warren.
Publication Info.	Athens ; London : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 9	824.09 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	xiii, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents	Introduction : The power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place - Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : The place of elegy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index.
Subject	Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Nature in literature.
	American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
	Natural history literature -- United States -- History.
	Natural history -- United States -- History.
	Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 -- Influence.
ISBN	0820327883 (alk. paper)
Standard No.	9780820327884

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