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

by Thomas Hallock

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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 earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession, the author demonstrates how authors explored the idea of wilderness and political identities in fully populated frontiers.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807854913

ISBN13:9780807854914

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Biological Sciences Classics Colonial Period Criticism & Theory Ecology History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Nature

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