{"product_id":"9780472028078","title":"Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early nineteenth century to the present. Our relationships with those forests have been shaped by the cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's \u003ci\u003eLandscape and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e and Robert Pogue Harrison's \u003ci\u003eForests: The Shadow of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e in exploring ways in which our\u003cbr\u003e relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan---its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies---as an exemplary case. Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's \u003ci\u003eTrue North\u003c\/i\u003e and Philip Caputo's \u003ci\u003eIndian Country\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impeding the progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. \u003ci\u003eImagining the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e shows the origin and development of both.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119564079344,"sku":"9780472028078","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472028078_p0.jpg?v=1763707736","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472028078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}