The Necessary Earth: Nature and Solitude in American Literature

by Wilson O Clough

Book Overview

The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distinguish it from that of other lands. Since literature is, in the author's words, "a compound of time, place, and the individual projection of personal experience and reflection into objective forms," the American compulsion to communicate their experience and their difference was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477300945
• ISBN13: 9781477300947
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"