In this Book
- Landscape With Figures: Nature & Culture New England
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: American Land & Life
summary
Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the countryside. InLandscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature.
Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again-. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, then returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods,Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781587294068
Related ISBN(s)
9780877457879, 9780877457886
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
56352151
Pages
342
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2001