| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.4

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Book Review

Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. By Melanie L. Simo. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xv + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $39.50.

In Literature of Place, Melanie Simo focuses on American literary representations of place from 1890 to 1970, a period she describes as "bracketed by an awareness of frontiers" (p. x). While the final decade of the nineteenth century is famously associated with the closing of America's western frontier, Simo notes that the lunar landing in 1969 and the first Earth Day in 1970 signaled new frontiers of environmental awareness. Literature of Place, a sort of sequel to Simo's 2003 book Forest and Garden: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897–1949, examines the 1890–1970 period through a wide lens, considering place in its broadest connotations: wilderness, park, farm, garden, city, neighborhood. Her concern is not with a single kind of landscape, but rather with how writers perceived and represented their relationships to American places during a tumultuous period in which places and cultural practices of place engagement were being radically transformed.

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