The Fall Into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California

by David Wyatt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521323991
• ISBN13: 9780521323994
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"