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Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement
Professor Daniel J Philippon
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Description for Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement
Paperback. Linking America's nature writing tradition to the development of its environmental organizations, this study looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations such as Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 b&w photos, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RN; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
391
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820327594
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V9780820327594
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About Professor Daniel J Philippon
DANIEL J. PHILIPPON is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he is also director of the Program in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Ethics. He is editor of a critical edition of Mabel Osgood Wright's The Friendship of Nature and coeditor of the anthology The Height of Our Mountains.
Reviews for Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement
Conserving Words richly evokes the larger social context of American nature writing in the era between Roosevelt and Abbey. Daniel Philippon's skill in interweaving the literature with the friendships, letters, official reports, and public debates that informed it makes this book both illuminating and delightful.
author of Reading the Mountains of Home
Philippon does an extraordinarily thorough and ... Read more
author of Reading the Mountains of Home
Philippon does an extraordinarily thorough and ... Read more