| Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nature in literature; Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Muir John 1838–1914 -- Appreciation -- United States; Pastoral literature American -- History and criticis; Advancing for the first time the concept of "post-pastoral practice," Reconnecting with John Muir springs from Terry Gifford's understanding of the great naturalist as an exemplar of integrated, environmentally conscious knowing and writing. Just as the discourses of science and the arts were closer in Muir's day--in part, arguably, because of Muir--it is time we learned from ecology to recognize how integrated our own lives are as readers, students, scholars, teachers, and writers. TERRY GIFFORD is a former Reader in Literature and Environment at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Green Voices and Pastoral . He has also edited the complete works of John Muir. |