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020			_a9780472028078
020			_a0472028073
020			_z9780472071647 (acid-free paper)
020			_z9780472051649 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
020			_z0472051644
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050	0	0	_aPS283.M5 _bK56 2012
082	0	0	_a810.9/358774 _223
100	1		_aKnott, John R. _q(John Ray), _d1937-
245	1	0	_aImagining the forest _h[electronic resource] : _bnarratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest / _cJohn Knott.
260			_aAnn Arbor : _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _cc2012. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 314 p. :) _bill. ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-301) and index.
520			_a"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 19th 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 relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan-its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies-as an exemplary case. Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country.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 Forest shows the origin and development of both"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
651		0	_aGreat Lakes Region (North America) _xDescription and travel.
651		0	_aMiddle West _xIn literature.
651		0	_aMichigan _xIn literature.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). _2bisacsh
650		7	_aNATURE / Essays. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aNatural history _zMichigan.
650		0	_aForests and forestry _zMichigan _xHistory.
650		0	_aNature in literature.
650		0	_aForestry in literature.
650		0	_aForests in literature.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472028078/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34731 _d34731