Maine's place in the environmental imagination / edited by Michael D. Burke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Michael D., 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Maine--In literature.

Maine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

Summary:

The essays in Maine's Place in the Environmental Imagination address - from a variety of perspectives - how Maine's unique identity among the states of the United States has been formed, and what that identity is: A place that is still imagined by others primarily through its environmental associations, its "nature" and landscape, rather than through its social arrangements and human history. The collection attempts a foundational study, not of a regional literature, but of a state literature. In doing so, it makes the case that Maine was constructed imaginatively and environmentally through its literature, and that this image is the one that endures even now. The essays suggest how this identity was formed, by discussing writings ranging from the recently recovered work of Joseph Nicolar, a member of the Penobscot Nation in the late 19th century, to the contemporary Maine author Carolyn Chute; from Thoreau's canonical essay, "Ktaadn," to the modernist E.B. White, whose works have an under-appreciated environmental project. Contributors include scholars Nathaniel Lewis, Annette Kolodny, Linda Kornasky, Daniel Malachuk, Kent Ryden, and Lynn Wake.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-6382-0

OCLC:

1231603366