Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest Contributor(s): Knott, John R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472071645 ISBN-13: 9780472071647 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $89.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Nature | Essays - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2011023782 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (1.05 lbs) 324 pages |
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Publisher Description: Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early nineteenth century to the present. Our relationships with those forests have been shaped by the cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impeding the progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imagining the Forestshows the origin and development of both. |