LA 1201 Lecture : Rowan Oak Notes
Document Summary
Rowan oak, mississippi famous estate of william faulkner. Pre-settlement landscape: before european settlement, used to interpret site (analyzed through historic maps and documents, the history of a landscape. Early settlement era: indians sold land to the us government, native americans and europeans differ in values. Native am. see land as a shared, public item. Europeans claim land as an individual belonging. Colonel robert sheegog era: 1st owner of rowan oak, 1840s to 1870, wealthy plantation owner, extracted maximum function of available land between ravines. Bailey era: 1870 to 1929, very little is known about this time period on rowan oak, thought to be absentee owners . William faulkner era: started in 1930, time of 1st photographs of rowan oak landscape, faulkner: His writings were very much inspired by the mississippi landscape. Character areas: themes and journeys of landscape, gendered landscape. Clear and geometric layout: agrigan pragmatic landscape.
