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Index 185 Abbey, Edward, 91 abstract space, 26–27 abstraction, 16, 22, 25, 26, 27, 55, 63, 76, 120 Africa, 3, 16, 32, 34–35, 131–33, 158 n23 Akeley, Carl, 158 n 23, 164 n1 Alcott, Bronson, 19 Allee, W. C., 90 American Museum of Natural History, 98, 155 n9, 158 n 23 American Studies, 11, 12, 13, 139 n6 anxiety, 4, 6, 7, 33, 37, 46, 84, 103, 111, 133, 139 n5, 146 n6 astronomy, as space, as symbol, as metonym, 24, 25, 27, 35, 84, 101 Austin, Mary, 75 Badiou, Alain, 10–11, 136 n 4, 138 n5 Baker, Houston, 117–19 Barnard College, 105 Belknap, Jeremy, 4, 6–10, 43–45, 132, 138, 147 n9, 147 n11 Benjamin, Walter, 66–67, 147 n9 Bethune, Mary McCleod, 114, 163 n16 Bethune-Cookman College, 113–14, 163 n 16 Brooks, Van Wyck, 14–15, 28, 38–43, 52, 55, 68–75, 145–46 n3, 149 n3, 151 n13, 152 n 16; works: America’s Coming of Age, 28, 40, 69, 71–73; Three Essays on America, 69, The Flowering of New England, 70, 149 n3, 151 n14 Bloom, Harold, 19, 29–30, 142 n5, 143 n 6 Brown, Lee Rust, 51, 141 n3 Bryant, William Cullen, 20, 55 Buell, Lawrence, 30, 35, 142 n5, 143 n6, 144 n8 and n9, 149 n3 Carson, Rachel, 5, 17, 101–102, 145 n9, 152 n15, 159 n25 Cather, Willa, 1, 3–4, 11, 14–17, 21, 74–77, 79–86, 89–90, 101, 103, 125–27, 132, 153 n3, 155 n9, 156 n10, 157 n14; works: My Ántonia, 2, 79, 81–83, 85–86, 89, 153 n3, 157 n17, O Pioneers!, 79, 81–89; “The Novel Démeublé,” 17, 80 Catlin, George, 64–65, 150–51 n11 Chase, Richard, 39, 50–51, 139 n6 Chastellux, Marquis de, 4, 6–8, 10–11, 138 Cheyfitz, Eric, 30, 142 n3, 143 n6 Climate change, 6, 22, 147 n11, 150 n10 Belknap on 147, n11 Communism, 94, 162 n13 Conservation, 4–5, 42, 71, 75–80, 86, 90, 135 n1, 136 n2, 136 n3, 137 n5, 138 n5, 147 n7, 153 n2, 153 n3, 154 n5, 155 n6, 155 n9, 158 n23 Cooper, James Fenimore, 4, 10–11, 14, 20–21, 37–53, 55–56, 64–66, 186 Index Cooper, James Fenimore (continued) 68–69, 72, 125, 132–33, 138 n5, 145 n9, 146 n4, 146 n5, 146 n6, 147 n8, 147 n9, 148 n13, 150 n9, works: The Chainbearer, 146 n6, 148 n13; The Deerslayer, 48–52, 148 n12; The Last of the Mohicans, 48–52; The Pathfinder, 52; The Pioneers, 42, 44, 47–48, 64, 146 n6; The Prairie, 46, 48–52; The Spy, 48; Wyandotte, 146 n6 Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 10, 145 n9 Cooper, William, 14, 43–47, 50, 133, 146 n5, 147 n8 Cowley, Malcolm, 128, 166 n7 Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John, 41, 43 Cronon, William, 4–6, 135 n1, 136 n2, 136 n3, 137–38 n5 deforestation, 5, 44–45, 140 n2, 147 n11 Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari, 82, 163–164 n19 Derrida, Jacques, 28, 30, 166 n6 Du Bois, W. E. B., 107, 115–17 Duyckink, Evert, 56, 59, 61, 148–49 n2 Dwight, Timothy, 4, 6–8, 10, 14, 21, 41, 43–47, 49–50, 132, 147n9, 148 n2 Earth Day, 5 Ecocriticism, 5, 13 Ecology/ecological, 3, 13, 15, 33, 35, 42, 47, 75–76, 80, 84, 89–103, 129–30, 132, 135–36 n1, 140 n2, 142 n3, 144 n9, 148 n12p Eliot, T. S., 38, 134 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 14–16, 19–32, 35–41, 51–52, 55–57, 62–63, 65–66, 68, 76, 82–83, 90, 101, 103, 116, 120, 122, 125–27, 144 n9, 145 n1, 152 n17; and celebrity, 27, 31, 143 n7; fame and reputation, 139–40 n1, 140 n2, 143 n5, 143 n6; and women, p 140 n3; and natural science, 140–41n 3; and imperialism p 142, n 3; lecturing, lecture reception, and audience reactions, 143, n7; works: “Circles,” 19; “Earth-Song,” 20; “Hamatreya,” 20; “The Method of Nature,” 20; “Nature,” 23–24; Nature, 20–27, 37–38, 55, 141 n3; “Woodnotes,” 20 Emersonian gaze, 132 Environment, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13–15, 19, 22, 26, 33–35, 38–39, 42–43, 48, 57–59, 61–66, 71–74, 82–83, 85, 89, 91, 99, 102, 112, 116, 117, 132, 135 n1, 138 n5, 139 n6, 146 n6, 148 n2, 150 n10...

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