Early American Nature Writers
eBook - PDF

Early American Nature Writers

A Biographical Encyclopedia

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Early American Nature Writers

A Biographical Encyclopedia

About this book

At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading. Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Rise of American Nature Writing
  5. Elizabeth Agassiz
  6. Louis Agassiz
  7. John James Audubon
  8. Florence Merriam Bailey
  9. John Bartram
  10. William Bartram
  11. Isabella Lucy Bird
  12. Neltje Blanchan
  13. John Bradbury
  14. William Byrd II
  15. George Catlin
  16. Susan Fenimore Cooper
  17. J. Hector St. John de CrĂšvecoeur
  18. Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
  19. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  20. Eliza W. Farnham
  21. [Thomas] Wilson Flagg
  22. John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont
  23. William Hamilton Gibson
  24. Chandler Robbins Gilman
  25. John D. Godman, MD
  26. Louis Hennepin
  27. Francis Higginson
  28. John Edwards Holbrook
  29. Thomas Jefferson
  30. Peter (Pehr) Kalm
  31. Clarence King
  32. Thomas Starr King
  33. Caroline Kirkland
  34. John Lawson
  35. Joseph LeConte
  36. Graceanna Lewis
  37. Meriwether Lewis
  38. Olive Thorne Miller
  39. Thomas Nuttall
  40. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
  41. John Wesley Powell
  42. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
  43. Captain Charles Melville Scammon
  44. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  45. George Washington Sears
  46. Annie Trumbull Slosson
  47. Celia Laighton Thaxter
  48. Edith M. Thomas
  49. Henry David Thoreau
  50. Bradford Torrey
  51. John Kirk Townsend
  52. Mary (Davis) Treat
  53. Alexander Wilson
  54. Theodore Winthrop
  55. Elizabeth C.Wright
  56. Mabel Osgood Wright
  57. Further Reading
  58. Index
  59. About the Editors and Contributors