Anxiety of Influx
Tony Tanner, 18 February 1982
Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
by Stephen Fender.
Cambridge, 241 pp., £15, January 1982,0 521 23924 9 Show More
by Stephen Fender.
Cambridge, 241 pp., £15, January 1982,
Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The 19th-Century Response
by Lee Clark Mitchell.
Princeton, 320 pp., £10.70, July 1981,9780691064611 Show More
by Lee Clark Mitchell.
Princeton, 320 pp., £10.70, July 1981,
“... whether that referred to the buffalo or the Indian. Mitchell deals with William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Lee Olmsted (concerned with the creation of Central Park), John Muir (Yosemite), Thomas Cole (it is a ‘question of vast importance how far it is practicable to restore the garden we have wasted’), Lyman Draper (‘delving and ... ”