The Virginia Quarterly Review, October 1st, 2000
Recovering the Prairie, edited by Robert F. Sayre.
These essays are unified by the noble goal of "restoring" and "recovering" the prairie within the past, present, and future collective American imagination. The authors are up to something novel in that they explore the prairie as a complex "other" that typical Americans have mistakenly thought of as a great empty space upon which civilization was erected. A variety of perspectives are represented. Kinsey, Roberts, and Sayre discuss how prairies presented an "aesthetic problem" to 19th-century landscape artists. Folsom analyzes the importance...
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