Closing the wilderness, opening the frontier -- I: The western text -- 1. The imagined west: Lewis Evans -- 2. The contested west: John Filson's Kentucke -- II: Improvement -- 3. Textual boundaries, discursive control: stories of the land in the Susquehanna Valley -- 4. Jefferson's nature and the Trans-Appalachian west: notes on the state of Virginia -- III: Protégés -- 5. Collaboration, incorporation, and environmental discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden -- 6. On the borders of a new world: William Bartram's Travels -- IV: Settlement and appropriation -- 7. Reversing the revolution through nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight -- 8. Disappearance and romance: Cooper's The Pioneers
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Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index
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