Susan Fenimore Cooper - New Essays on 'Rural Hours' and Other Works

Informationen zum Autor Rochelle L. Johnson (Editor) ROCHELLE L. JOHNSON is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at the College of Idaho and immediate past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). She is the coeditor, with Daniel Patterson, of two volumes of Susan Fenimore Cooper's writings, Rural Hours and Essays on Nature and Landscape , as well as a collection of scholarly essays, Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works (all Georgia). Daniel Patterson (Editor) DANIEL PATTERSON is a professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Klappentext This volume contains diverse essays on the works of Susan Fenimore Cooper. They discuss Cooper's uses and manipulations of various literary conventions and illuminate her positions on conservation! religion! and woman's place in society. Zusammenfassung Collected here are detailed and diverse essays, some that examineRural Hours, Susan Fenimore Cooper's most famous work, and others that help establish Cooper as a major practitioner and theorist of American nature writing and as a socially engaged artist in many other genres.

Product details

• Authors: Rochelle Patterson Johnson
• Assisted by: Rochelle Johnson (Editor), Rochelle L Johnson (Editor), Rochelle L. Johnson (Editor), Daniel Patterson (Editor), J. Daniel Patterson (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2001
• EAN: 9780820323268
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2326-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Die Natur: Sachbuch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, NATURE / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General