| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages) |
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American land and life series |
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American land and life series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : What do rivers mean? -- Overlooking the river -- By the river -- Up the river -- Down the river -- Crossing the river -- Up and down the river |
| Summary |
In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literatur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Rivers in literature.
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Philosophy of nature in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Rivers.
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American literature
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Philosophy of nature in literature
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Rivers in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587299780 |
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158729978X |
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