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020			_a1587902788 (paperback)
020			_a1587902796 (ebook)
020			_a9781587902789 (paperback)
020			_a9781587902796 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)891610263
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100	1		_aRaskin, Jonah, _d1942- _9274324
245	1	2	_aA terrible beauty : _bthe wilderness of American literature / _cJonah Raskin.
260			_aBerkeley, Calif. : _bRegent Press, _cc2014.
300			_a366 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAh, wilderness -- Explorers & colonists: Sebastian Cabot, Henry Hudson, Robert Juet & William Bradford -- Puritans: Roger Williams, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather & William Faulkner -- Revolutionaries: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, J. Hector Crevecoueur, Philip Freneau & Washington Irving -- Continental: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark & Sacagawea -- Pioneers: James Fenimore Cooper's wild literary ride -- Pale faces & redskins: Robert Baird, Catharine Sedgwick & Ly6dia Maria Child -- Radicals: Margaret Fuller & Henry David Thoreau -- Allegorical: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville & John Muir -- Coquette: Emily Dickinson -- Satirical: Mark Twain -- Twentieth century & beyond: Jack London, Mary Austin, Willa Cather & F. Scott Fitzgerald.
520			_aShortly before he published Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau called "The library a wilderness of books." He also noted that while Americans were "clearing the forest in our westward progress, we are accumulating a forest of books in our rear, as wild and unexplored as any of nature's primitive wildernesses." In A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature, Jonah Raskin takes a long close look at the forest of books that poets, novelists and essayists mapped and explored before and after Thoreau. The first work of cultural criticism to look back at writing in the United States from the perspective of the contemporary environmental crisis, Raskin offers insights for students, teachers and lovers of literature as well as for backpackers and hikers who have trekked across untrammeled forests, deserts and mountains.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism. _939605
650		0	_aEnvironmentalism in literature. _9274325
650		0	_aWilderness areas in literature. _948942
650		0	_aWilderness areas _zUnited States. _9259741
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