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Reordering Nature: Romantic Science, Natural History, and Mountaineering

Wright, Paula (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

In the modern outdoor recreation community (and the $887 billion annually U.S. outdoor industry), there is the concern that outdoor recreationists are “loving our [crags, trails, rivers, summits] to death.” At the same ...
Speaking, Silently Speaking: Thomas Shepard's "Confessions" and the Cultural Impact of Puritan Conversion on Early and Later America

Young, Alexander (University of Oregon, 2012)

My dissertation reappraises the Puritan conversion narrative's influence on early and later American literature. It centers around the accounts recorded by the Reverend Thomas Shepard, minister to Cambridge's first church, ...