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Imagining the forest = narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining the forest/ John Knott.
Reminder of title:	narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest /
Author:	Knott, John R.
Published:	Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press, : c2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (336 p.).
Subject:	HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). -
Subject:	Great Lakes Region (North America) - Politics and government. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780472028078 (electronic bk.)

Imagining the forest = narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest /
Knott, John R.1937-

Imagining the forestnarratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest /[electronic resource] :John Knott. - Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2012. - 1 online resource (336 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests inMichigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imaginationfrom the beginnings of European settlement in the early 19th century to the present.Our relationships with those forests have been shaped bythe cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan-its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies-as an exemplary case.Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country.Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impedingthe progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imaginingthe Forest shows the origin and development of both"--

ISBN: 9780472028078 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

958694
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI).
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

957558
Great Lakes Region (North America)
--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: PS283.M5 / K58 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/358774

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