SOURCE: Van Noy, Rick. “Surveying the Sublime: Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of Place.” In The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment, edited by Steven Rosendale, pp. 181‐204. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
In the following essay, Van Noy presents the work of three mappers—Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, and John Wesley Powell—as representing various nineteenth‐century responses to the spirit of the western landscape.
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