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Despite the rise of contemporary ecocriticism, until now John Burroughs has remained the most neglected and least understood major figure in the history of U.S. nature writing. Warren handsomely redresses this imbalance in his wise and deeply informed unpacking of the complexities of Burroughs's relations with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and especially John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Warren thereby also provides the best account to date of the importance of nature writing itself at a pivotal moment in U.S. cultural history.
--Lawrence Buell "author of The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture "A comprehensive, insightful reading of one of America's greatest nature writers. Warren covers Burroughs' entire career, carefully calibrating his character and achievements against those of his influential companions Thoreau, Whitman, Roosevelt, and Muir while, at the same time, evoking their distinctive literary styles and environmental values. It is easy to see how Burroughs' original combination of lyric natural history, agrarian pastoral, cultural criticism, and biophilia could inspire millions of readers from school children to presidents. Beautifully written and deeply informed, this book will speak not only to ecocritics and environmental historians, but to anyone who cherishes the green and living earth.
--John Tallmadge "author of The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City "For readers interested in nature writing, ecocriticism, and/or environmental history, Warren's book will prove indispensable. John Burroughs and the Place of Nature is scholarship in the richest, broadest sense: it uses solid research and direct, accessible prose to tell a compelling story about Burroughs and his place within various larger contexts of environmental representation.
--Michael P. Branch "editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden ""About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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