{"product_id":"the-fall-into-eden-landscape-and-imagination-in-california-paperback-9780521397513","title":"The Fall into Eden; Landscape and Imagination in California (Paperback) 9780521397513","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Fall into Eden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLandscape and Imagination in California\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Wyatt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521397513, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 November 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 17 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.461 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… an important contribution to the study of non-canonical American literature.' The Modern Language Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that in the literature of the West, the energies, which, in other regions, had been concentrated in covenant theology or the rationalisation of Southern history, are displaced into an encounter with landscape. Tracing the early literature of California to Dana, Leonard, and Fremont, Wyatt studies their development of self-consciousness and awareness of the physical beauty in nature. He then examines in separate chapters the writings of Muir, King, and Mary Austin during a time of domestication and exploitation of the land when landscape became, of necessity, an idea or lost ideal. Of twentieth-century writers, the book focuses on Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, who seemed to struggle against the land, charting the advance of human hopes against the vast open spaces of the West. Professor Wyatt concludes with the writer's return to landscape as source and end in the poetry of Jeffers and Snyder.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: the mythology of the region\u003cbr\u003e 1. Spectatorship and abandonment: Dana, Leonard, and Frémont\u003cbr\u003e 2. Muir and the possession of landscape\u003cbr\u003e 3. King and catastrophe\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mary Austin: nature and nurturance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Norris and the vertical\u003cbr\u003e 6. Steinbeck's lost gardens\u003cbr\u003e 7. Chandler, marriage, and 'the Great Wrong Place'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Jeffers, Snyder, and the ended world\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: fictions of space\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002354585880,"sku":"9780521397513","price":39.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521397513i_548947f0-c01f-435c-b5f1-0dcc6aa710cd.jpg?v=1691381074","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-fall-into-eden-landscape-and-imagination-in-california-paperback-9780521397513","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}