TY - BOOK ID - 1062044 TI - The fall into Eden : landscape and imagination in California PY - 1986 SN - 0521323991 0521397510 0511597703 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Thematology KW - California KW - Landscapes in literature KW - Eden in literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Paysages dans la littérature KW - Eden dans la littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Californie KW - In literature KW - Dans la littérature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Paysages dans la littérature KW - Eden dans la littérature KW - Dans la littérature KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Authors, American KW - Landscapes in literature. KW - Eden in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Homes and haunts KW - Intellectual life. KW - In literature. KW - Landscape in literature KW - American authors KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Alta California (Province) KW - CA KW - Cal. KW - Cali. KW - Calif. KW - Californias (Province) KW - CF KW - Chia-chou KW - Departamento de Californias KW - Kʻaellipʻonia KW - Kʻaellipʻonia-ju KW - Kʻaellipʻoniaju KW - Kalifornii KW - Kalifornii︠a︡ KW - Kalifornija KW - Ḳalifornyah KW - Ḳalifornye KW - Kālīfūrniyā KW - Kaliphornia KW - Karapōnia KW - Kariforunia KW - Kariforunia-shū KW - Medinat Ḳalifornyah KW - Politeia tēs Kaliphornias KW - Provincia de Californias KW - Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ KW - State of California KW - Upper California KW - Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας KW - Καλιφόρνια KW - Штат Каліфорнія KW - Калифорния KW - Калифорнија KW - Калифорнии KW - Каліфорнія KW - קאליפארניע KW - קליפורניה KW - מדינת קליפורניה KW - كاليفورنيا KW - カリフォルニア KW - カリフォルニア州 KW - 캘리포니아 KW - 캘리포니아 주 KW - 캘리포니아주 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1062044 AB - In 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. ER -