The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works--think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner--look to the wild as the site for establishing a man's selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery.
This tension lies at the heart of Eco-Man, which brings together two rapidly growing fields: men's studies and ecocriticism. The two disciplines have rarely if ever touched on...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equal...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works--think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner--look to the wild as the site for establishing a man's selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery.
This tension lies at the heart of Eco-Man, which brings together two rapidly growing fields: men's studies and ecocriticism. The two disciplines have rarely if ever touched on...
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equal...
A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner and an easterner. An engaging and astute reader and observer, Alan Williamson uses his poetic lens to examine the new connections, notably with the Far East, that have been forged in the West, but also the fear, anxiety, and sense of cultural vacancy that western artists have had to overcome...
A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has devel...
The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry Jackson once complained of the skepticism with which early descriptions of Yellowstone were met: the place was too wondrous to be believed. The public demanded proof, and a host of artists and writers obliged. These early explorers possessed a vigorous devotion to the young nation's wilderness--the naturalist John Muir famously toured the land from Wisconsin to Florida on foot--and through their work established aesthetic categories that exist to...
Lines on the Land
Writers, Art, and the National Parks
Scott Herring
The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry J...