Visions of the land : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / / Michael A. Bryson.

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Visions of the land [electronic resource] : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / Michael A. Bryson.
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
xvii, 228 p.
Under the sign of nature
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.
"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American literature History and criticism.
Environmental literature History and criticism.
Literature and science United States History.
Environmental protection in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
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contents "I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.
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