Imagining Wild America

At a time when the idea of wilderness is being challenged by both politicians and intellectuals, Imagining Wild America examines writing about wilderness and wildness and makes a case for its continuing value. The book focuses on works by John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver, as each writer illustrates different stages and dimensions of the American fascination with wild nature. John Knott traces the emergence of a visionary tradition that embraces values consciously understood to be ahistorical, showing that these writers, while recognizing the claims of history and the interdependence of nature and culture, also understand and attempt to represent wild nature as something different, other.

Imagining Wild America,John R. Knott,University of Michigan Press,0472098063,American - General,American Literature (General),American literature,Environmental Science,General,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Nature in literature,Popular Culture - General,Special Subjects In Literature,Wilderness areas in literature,Social Science / Popular Culture

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