Professor Emeritus
jknott@umich.eduOffice Information:
4198 Angell Hall
Emeriti; English; Twentieth Century American; Nineteenth Century American; Ecocriticism; American; Early Modern; British
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Harvard 1966Highlighted Work and Publications

Imagining the Forest Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
John Knott
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.
Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's ...
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