From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826UNC Press Books, 2003 - 289 pages Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in e |
Contents
Closing the Wilderness Opening the Frontier 1 | 1 |
The Imagined West Lewis Evans 29 | 29 |
The Contested West John Filsons Kentucke 56 | 56 |
Textual Boundries Discursive Control Stories of the Land in the Susquehanna Valley 77 | 77 |
Jeffersons Nature and the TransAppalachian West Notes on the State of Virginia 96 | 96 |
Collaboration Incorporation and Environmental Discourse Lewis and Clark Jane Golden 121 | 121 |
On the Borders of a New World William Bartrams Travels 149 | 149 |
Reversing the Revolution Throught Nature Anne Grant Timothy Dwight 177 | 177 |
Disappearance and Romance Coopers The Pioneers 196 | 196 |
Parallel Republics | 217 |
Notes | 227 |
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