Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies
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Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies

  1. 364 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies

About this book

An important and prescient early example of US environmental writing with a profound sense of consciousness and appreciation for the natural world.

In her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She was a teacher, a botanist, and, later in life, a Kansas homesteader. In Lichen Tufts, Wright urged her readers to cultivate an intimate knowledge of the natural world, reflecting her Transcendentalist belief that an immersive relationship with nature benefits the individual as well as society as a whole. Composed of four essays and forty poems, Lichen Tufts reveals wisdom and beauty in an early example of eco-feminism that highlights the natural world as antidote to society's restrictive gender codes, one that is still relevant today.

SUNY Press brings Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies to life for modern audiences, with a recovery edition featuring the 1860 book in its entirety. An Introduction by Emily E. VanDette places the book and its author in the context of nineteenth-century social reform campaigns throughout the "Burned Over District" of western New York. An Afterword written by Laurie Lounsberry Meehan highlights the history of Alfred University and the cohort that influenced Wright's environmental and social reform activism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. New Introduction
  6. Into the Woods
  7. The Nature Cure—for the Body
  8. The Nature Cure—for the Mind
  9. The Perfection of the Natural
  10. A Pilgrim Pagan
  11. A Dream Anthem
  12. The Lost Lake
  13. “Love in a Cottage”
  14. The Dual Spirit
  15. A Word to the Weary
  16. By the Mississippi
  17. Sacrament
  18. Make not Poyerty’s Cup too Bitter
  19. To-Day
  20. Summer Friendship
  21. By the Sea-Side
  22. I’ll Tell You, Coz!
  23. Pity
  24. Twain
  25. Voices
  26. Beautiful Life
  27. Phantom Building
  28. “Liberty—Equality—Brotherhood”
  29. The Picture on the Wall
  30. One April Eye
  31. By a Lake Side
  32. The Death Watch
  33. Our Own Old Woods
  34. Snow Song
  35. Martha
  36. Star-Beams in Shadow Land
  37. Stagnation
  38. Lullaby
  39. Sheaves of Time’s Harvest
  40. A Voice from Afar
  41. Anniversary Letter
  42. Anniversary Letter
  43. Modern Fairies
  44. Fragment
  45. Vigil Lessons
  46. Life’s Nooning Song
  47. The Moon of Blossoms in Prairie Land
  48. A Reverie
  49. Alter Ego
  50. Afterword
  51. Back cover