ENG357H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Frederick Jackson Turner, King James Version, Frontier Thesis
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Anglo-western legacy of wilderness as a deserted, savage, desolate, and barren. Early us settlers also had an aversion to wilderness. Page 131, eleanor says that hornby"s description of the barrens put her in mind of the. Left off on monday: talking about wilderness, and depictions of wilderness. The two most prominent representations of wilderness: wilderness as a desolate, menacing place; and wilderness as inspiring and uplifting. wasteland. That version of wilderness is informed by the king james bible. Wilderness is the place where moses and his people endured for 40 years, where christ endured temptation for 40 days, where adam and eve were exiled. Wilderness can be a site of desolation, and hay"s novel gestures to this description of wilderness. holy men of the desert, starving themselves in order to have visions. The novel alludes to this representation. be tamed. tourism to national sites like niagara falls. Romanticism started to see nature as a place of creative rejuvenation and respite.
