Best Read Naturalist

Nature Writins of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael P. Branch

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. The Best Read Naturalist fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson’s lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections—made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays—reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson’s career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the “book of nature,” a more environmentally connected thinker emerges—a “green” Emerson deeply concerned with the physical world and fascinated with the ability of science to reveal a correspondence between the order of nature and that of the mind. The Best Read Naturalist illuminates the vital influence that the study of natural history had on the development of Emerson’s mature philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-02-28
Mått152 x 228 x 6 mm
Vikt392 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieUnder the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN9780813939520

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Michael P. Branch is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author or editor of numerous books, including Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness and John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa. Clinton Mohs is a doctoral student in English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of articles on American literatures of the long nineteenth century.

“This book restores the ‘green’ Emerson to a deservedly prominent place in the narrative of American nature writing. Bringing the ecocritical community into contact with these theoretically rich, nature-focused texts is a vital contribution to contemporary environmental scholarship.” —David M. Roblinson, Oregon State University, author of Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work and Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism"[I]t is abundantly clear that Branch and Mohs have created a wonderfully handy collection, one whose selection of pieces and editorial framing is very worthy of further investigation by those new to Emerson as well as by seasoned scholars." — ALH Online Review, XIX.1