William Bartram | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 31 pages of analysis & critique of William Bartram.

William Bartram | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 31 pages of analysis & critique of William Bartram.
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SOURCE: Hallock, Thomas. “‘On the Borders of a New World’: Ecology, Frontier Plots, and Imperial Elegy in William Bartram's Travels.South Atlantic Review 66, no. 4 (fall 2001): 109-33.

In the following essay, Hallock traces the development of Bartram's Travels, noting its integration of contemporary artistic modes as well as its internal contradictions, and concludes by characterizing the work as one of America's first outstanding pastoral projects.

such attempts I leave for the amusement of men of Letters

—William Bartram1

As the movement in any pastoral away from politics will draw politicized critiques, the Travels of William Bartram holds a characteristically ambivalent place in the canon of American pastoral literature. Viewed against the environmental writings of its day, the book provides a refreshing alternative to the usual rhetoric of expansion and usurpation, and critics can not discuss the author, it seems, without eventually broaching some form of ethical judgement. Bartram on...

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