| Rural Hours Revised Edition Contributor(s): Johnson, Rochelle L. (Editor), Patterson, Daniel (Editor), Cooper, Susan Fenimore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820320005 ISBN-13: 9780820320007 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: RURAL HOURS (1850) is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woman--the daughter of James Fenimore Cooper--who reveals her ideal society as a rural one, carefully poised between the receding wilderness and a looming industrialization. This first full printing since 1876 restores passages earlier deleted. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 508 |
| LCCN: 98-02689 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (1.27 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rural Hours (1850) is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woman. This new edition, the only printing of the full original text since 1876, restores passages excised by the author for an 1887 edition. The daughter of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), uses narratives and descriptions of her walks and excursions to reveal her ideal society as a rural one, carefully poised between the receding wilderness and a looming industrialization. She theorizes that knowledge of place causes people to approach the land humbly and gratefully and asserts the necessity of establishing a society that is sustainable in the natural world and that sees a moral obligation to deepen knowledge of the natural history of the environment. |
Contributor Bio(s): Patterson, Daniel: - DANIEL PATTERSON is a professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia.Cooper, Susan Fenimore: - SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER (1813-1894) was a pioneering American nature writer, as well as an accomplished illustrator of nature. In addition to having her own literary pursuits, she was instrumental to the career of James Fenimore Cooper. As one of his children, she was his trusted literary assistant |