
Landscape with Figures
Nature and Culture in New England
Ryden(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-0-87745-788-6 (ISBN)
Description
Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the countryside. In Landscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature.
Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, then returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.
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Series
Edition
New
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 photographs, 2 maps, index
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87745-788-6 (9780877457886)
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Person
Kent Ryden is an associate professor in the American and New England Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (Iowa, 1993).