Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index
Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer’s place --Whitman land : John Burroughs’s pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy.
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