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Quest for Walden
Loren C. Owings
其他書名
A Study of the "country Book" in American Popular Literature with an Annotated Bibliography, 1863 Through 1995
出版McFarland, 1997
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / ReferenceReference / GeneralReference / Bibliographies & Indexes
ISBN07864035439780786403547
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=39RZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋For many urban-dwellers, a Walden-like five acres, two hours outside the city, would be their answer to the American dream. Over the years, writers--usually exurbanites long fascinated with the theme of retreat to the pastoral ideal--have published "country books" urging the return to rural life. "Country books" follow two formats--the country life essay and the handbook--and as a group trace changes in society and American values since the mid-1860s. The first book-length study of the country book, this work gives detailed content analyses of both country essays and handbooks, examines the back-to-land movement as reflected in books from 1863 through 1995, and discusses the influence of Henry David Thoreaus Walden on the genre. Included are chapter-length studies of "David Grayson" (Ray Stannard Baker), Louis Bromfield and Malabar Farm, naturist Hal Borland, Gladys Taber and her Stillmeadow Farm, and Helen and Scott Nearing. Other notable authors discussed are Henry Beston, Lewis Gannett, poet Donald Hall, Haydn Pearson, and Mark Van Doren. The extensive annotated bibliography includes over 200 works.