At Home on this Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women's Nature Writing

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Lorraine Anderson, Thomas S. Edwards
UPNE, 2002 - 404 páginas
The canon of U.S. nature writing, like the literary canon in general, has long been male-centered. But as this anthology shows, women’s voices have been there since the early Republic. At Home on This Earth features the most readable and accomplished pieces of nature writing by more than 50 U.S. women authors, from the early 19th century to the present. Spanning a range of genres including memoir, story, journal entry, sketch, and essay, it brings together pieces long out of print by such forgotten authors as Elizabeth C. Wright and Edith Thomas with selections by such well-known and acclaimed authors as Rachel Carson and Alice Walker. Moving far beyond the customary association of nature writing with New England and its Yankee progenitors, the book offers work from across the United States by Jewish, Asian, Hispanic, African American, and Native American women. With its rich diversity in voices, attitudes, and styles, this anthology expands the definition of nature writing, recognizes the specific contribution of women to this genre, and shows their unique relation to the natural world.

Designed for undergraduate courses as well as for general readers, the book includes a short biography of the author preceding each selection. A bibliography and list of further reading is included, as well as an index of authors and titles. Lorraine Anderson’s introduction traces for the first time a distinct tradition of women’s nature writing in the United States.

Contributors — Mary Hunter Austin, Marilou Awiakta, Florence Merriam Bailey, Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca, Sally Carrighar, Rachel Carson, Denise Chávez, Anna Botsford Comstock, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Terri de la Peńa, Annie Dillard, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Gretel Ehrlich, Virginia Eifert, Louise Erdrich, Margaret Fuller, Susan Griffin, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Linda Hasselstrom, Julia Butterfly Hill, Linda Hogan, bell hooks, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Pam Houston, Sue Hubbell, Florence Page Jaques, Sarah Orne Jewett, Josephine Johnson, Diana Kappel-Smith, Caroline Kirkland, Maxine Kumin, Anne LaBastille, Ursula K. Le Guin, Meridel Le Sueur, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Ellen Meloy, Olive Thorne Miller, Brenda Peterson, Gene Stratton Porter, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Sharman Apt Russell, Leslie Marmon Silko, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Laighton Thaxter, Edith M. Thomas, Alice Walker, Evelyn C. White, Terry Tempest Williams, Elizabeth C. Wright, Mabel Osgood Wright, Ann Zwinger

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Caroline Kirkland
8
Margaret Fuller
20
Harriet Beecher Stowe
28
Susan Fenimore Cooper
34
Into the Woods
41
Olive Thorne Miller
54
Celia Laighton Thaxter
65
Charlotte Forten Grimké
72
Sally Carrighar
196
Rachel Carson
214
Josephine Johnson
223
Maxine Kumin
237
Sue Hubbell
255
Anne LaBastille
270
Linda Hasselstrom
284
Gretel Ehrlich
303

Sarah Orne Jewett
81
Thomas
91
The Solitary
98
Anna Botsford Comstock ΙΟΙ
101
Natures Calm
117
Florence Merriam Bailey
133
The Walking Woman
149
Florence Page Jaques
169
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca
183
Terri de la Peńa
309
Ellen Meloy
322
Denise Chávez
341
bell hooks
360
Louise Erdrich
375
Julia Butterfly Hill
391
རངཙ
404
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Midwestern Miscellany, Temas31-33

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