| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: Geographical encounters, modernist geopoetics -- Academic and popular geography: global connections, environmentalist style -- The "terraqueous" globe: Walt Whitman and the cosmological geography of Humboldt and Somerville -- African diasporic re-placing: race and environment in the poetry of Helene Johnson and Langston Hughes -- (Trans) nation, geography, and genius: Gertrude Stein's geographical history of America -- H.D.'s trilogy as transnational palimpsest -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Rebecca Walsh connects a range of American modernist poets to the work of well known American geographers such as Ellsworth Huntington and Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as to the National Geographic magazine. This book considers the role of academic and popular forms of geography in shaping the experimental poetic modernism of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and H.D |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947.
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Semple, Ellen Churchill, 1863-1932.
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
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| SUBJECT |
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 fast |
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 fast |
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Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947 fast |
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Semple, Ellen Churchill, 1863-1932 fast |
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 fast |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast |
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National geographic magazine. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005066143
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National geographic magazine fast |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Geography in literature.
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Geographers -- United States.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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Geographers
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Geography in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813055145 |
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0813055148 |
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