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Donaldson, Elizabeth J. "Picturesque Scenes, Sentimental Creatures: The Rhetoric and Politics of American Nature Writing, 1890-1920," Department of English, State University of New York, August 1997.
Nature books of the Progressive era, while representing natural objects and the American landscape, often promulgate nationalism, expansionism, and the cultivation of American civil and domestic order. The travel literature and nature essays of John Charles Van Dyke, John Muir, and Frederick Law Olmstead illustrate that the scenic appreciation of nature, far from being a force of opposition to wilderness development, shared the ethic of material expansionism and social progress characteristic of this era. The politics of nature and nation also structured animal observation, and popular ornithology essays reinforced contemporary gender ideologies by using conventions of sentimental fiction.
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