Research Catalog

Title

"An insect view of its plain" : insects, nature and God in Thoreau, Dickinson and Muir / Rosemary Scanlon McTier.

Author

McTier, Rosemary Scanlon, 1970-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2013.

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Description

vii, 202 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This volume addresses that critical gap by exploring the cultural and literary position of insects in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir. It examines the beliefs these authors share about the nature of our connection to insects and what insects have to teach about creation and our place in it"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 > Insects
• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Insects
• Muir, John, 1838-1914 > Insects
• Insects in literature
• Nature in literature
• Naturalists > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Textual abbreviations -- Introduction-Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir: interpreting the language of nature -- Insects and the nineteenth century -- "With microscopic eye": Thoreau's insect perspective -- "A minor nation": Emily Dickinson and the insects' society -- John Muir: translating "nature's book".

ISBN

• 9780786464937 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786464933 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012029674

OCLC

794708248

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library