The Fall into Eden

Landscape and Imagination in California

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Hardcover | 8 December 1986

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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.

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'This is an elegant, graceful, and moving book, a kind of hymn to California ...'. American Literature '... an important contribution to the study of non-canonical American literature.' The Modern Language Review

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: the mythology of the region
Spectatorship and abandonment: Dana, Leonard, and FrTmont
Muir and the possession of landscape
King and catastrophe
Mary Austin: nature and nurturance
Norris and the vertical
Steinbeck's lost gardens
Chandler, marriage, and 'the Great Wrong Place'
Jeffers, Snyder, and the ended world
Epilogue: fictions of space
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Fall into Eden

Landscape and Imagination in California

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