Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (American Land & Life Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877457204 ISBN 13: 9780877457206

Publisher: University of Iowa Press, 2000

Synopsis

The contributors to this work address how the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau and his successors attempted to cope with the epistemological split between the perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature. They discuss the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Green, MD Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

Wayne Franklin, MD Physician-Director, CME Programs Associate Professor of Pediatrics Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

Robert R. Tanz, MD Professor of Pediatrics Director, Diagnostic and Consultation Services Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

This is a very impressive group of authors. Dr. Green is Chairman of Pediatrics at Northwestern, and Physician-in-Chief at Children's Memorial Hospital, one of the top pediatric hospitals in the U.S. (He succeeds James Stockman, who left the position to become President of the American Board of Pediatrics). Dr. Franklin is a pediatric cardiologist who coordinates all CME and recertification review activities for Children's, as such he is expert in the content of the recertification exam and its structure. Dr. Tanz directs the consult service at Children's and thus has a wide breadth of clinical knowledge. All three are widely published in the journal literature but this will be their first book.

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0877457204
• ISBN 13: 9780877457206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Schneider Richard J.