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University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Fl. [u.a.]
Rebecca Walsh connects a range of American modernist poets to the work of well known American geographers such as Ellsworth Huntington and Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as to the National Geographic magazine. This book considers the role of...
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Rebecca Walsh connects a range of American modernist poets to the work of well known American geographers such as Ellsworth Huntington and Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as to the National Geographic magazine. This book considers the role of academic and popular forms of geography in shaping the experimental poetic modernism of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and H.D
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index
Introduction: Geographical encounters, modernist geopoeticsAcademic and popular geography: global connections, environmentalist style -- The "terraqueous" globe: Walt Whitman and the cosmological geography of Humboldt and Somerville -- African diasporic re-placing: race and environment in the poetry of Helene Johnson and Langston Hughes -- (Trans) nation, geography, and genius: Gertrude Stein's geographical history of America -- H.D.'s trilogy as transnational palimpsest -- Conclusion.
