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JOHN BURROUGHS AND THE PLACE OF NATURE.
ITEM #: EE-14458
RETAIL: $39.95
PRICE: $23.98
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| JOHN BURROUGHS AND THE PLACE OF NATURE. Warren. This inspirational book situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and World War I, defined and secured a place for nature in mainstream American culture. Though not as well known today, Burroughs was the most popular American nature writer of his time. Prolific and consistent, he published scores of essays in influential large-circulation magazines and was often compared to Thoreau. Burroughs wrote more than thirty books, enjoyed a continual high level of visibility, and saw his work taught widely in public schools, guiding urban and suburban middle-class readers back to nature during a time of intense industrialization and urbanization. Warren discusses Burroughs’s connections not only to Muir and Roosevelt but also to his forebears Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Offers insights into the rise of the nature essay as a genre, the role of popular magazines as shapers and conveyors of public values, and the dynamism of place in terms of such opposed concepts as retreat and engagement, nature and culture, and wilderness and civilization. #EE-14458, hardcover.
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