Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing
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Book Description
SHARP EYES: JOHN BURROUGHS AND AMERICAN NATURE WRITING is the first full collection of essays and scholarship about John Burroughs, who was one of America's greatest and most influential nature writers of the 19th and early 20th century. Long overdue, this book marks a resurgence of interest in Burroughs, who was an immensely popular figure in his own time, a friend of such disparate well known figures as Walt Whitman, John Muir, Henry Ford, and Theodore Roosevelt. SHARP EYES includes essays on Burroughs's influence on the nature essay itself, his relationships, literary or personal, with his contemporaries (Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Muir), his engagement with issues such as conservation, science, and religion, and his influence on nature education. Readers of this collection will find a companion volume in THE ART OF SEEING THINGS, a collection of essays by Burroughs which includes many of the essays discussed by scholars in SHARP EYES.
About the Author
Charlotte Zoe Walker is a Professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta, where she teaches courses in nature and literature. She is also a fiction writer whose work is often inspired by the natural world. Her novel, CONDOR AND HUMMINGBIRD, was published under her former name, Charlotte Mendez, and her published stories include an O. Henry Award winner and an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories.
Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing,Charlotte Zoe Walker,Syracuse University Press,0815628420,1837-1921,Burroughs, John,,Essays,History,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics,Natural History,Natural history literature,Naturalists,Nature,United States
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