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Title: The Best Read Naturalist
Condition: New
Subtitle: Nature Writins of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Clinton Mohs
Contributor: Michael P. Branch (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
EAN: 9780813939520
ISBN: 9780813939520
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Home Garden & Pets
Release Date: 28/02/2017
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 392g
Book Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism
Release Year: 2017
Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. The Best Read Naturalist fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson’s lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections—made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays—reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson’s career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the “book of nature,” a more environmentally connected thinker emerges—a “green” Emerson deeply concerned with the physical world and fascinated with the ability of science to reveal a correspondence between the order of nature and that of the mind. The Best Read Naturalist illuminates the vital influence that the study of natural history had on the development of Emerson’s mature philosophy.

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