From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826

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UNC Press Books, 2003 - 289 páginas
Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in e

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Closing the Wilderness Opening the Frontier 1
1
The Imagined West Lewis Evans 29
29
The Contested West John Filsons Kentucke 56
56
Textual Boundries Discursive Control Stories of the Land in the Susquehanna Valley 77
77
Jeffersons Nature and the TransAppalachian West Notes on the State of Virginia 96
96
Collaboration Incorporation and Environmental Discourse Lewis and Clark Jane Golden 121
121
On the Borders of a New World William Bartrams Travels 149
149
Reversing the Revolution Throught Nature Anne Grant Timothy Dwight 177
177
Disappearance and Romance Coopers The Pioneers 196
196
Parallel Republics
217
Notes
227
Bibliography
261
Index
285
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Thomas Hallock is assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

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