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"Maximum of wilderness"
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naturalists & the image of the jungle in American culture
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Naturalists & the image of the jungle in American culture
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Naturalists and the image of the jungle in American culture
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ETD_1929
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051975
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doi:10.7282/T3XG9R9V
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eng
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theses
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Natural history
Abstract
Many scholars have argued that the idea of wilderness was a driving force in the formation of American identity. Environmental historians have outlined how the definition of “wilderness” has changed throughout the nation’s history, but few scholars have considered the role of non-American landscapes in shifting notions of “the wild.” As both “unspoiled” and “unconquerable,” tropical forests have long figured into the American imagination. “Maximum of Wilderness,” a phrase film-makers Martin and Osa Johnson use to describe Borneo’s Rain Forest, traces the representation of tropical landscapes (along with their animal and human inhabitants) seeking to understand their place in both the history of the idea of nature and the globalization of the environmental movement.
As a cultural construction, “the Jungle” is a dynamic mixture of myth and reality. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Jungle was a popular theme in American culture; books and films such as Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan (1914) and Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong (1933) created an image of adventure in tropical forests with mass appeal. While the popular image of the Jungle masked many of the real experiences in it, American naturalists sought to represent an “authentic” view of tropical nature in museums, zoological and botanical gardens, literature, and film. Through the lives and works of naturalists William Beebe, Martin and Osa Johnson, David Fairchild, and Richard Evans Schultes my work examines the relationship between popular and scientific representations of tropical nature—and the resonance of these images. My central concern is how and why this imagery shifts at mid-century from the Jungle as a place that endangered human lives to the Rain Forest, a place itself endangered. Still present in the American imagination, both images speak to the central place of tropical forests within constructions of adventure and wilderness, as well as to the American role in, and responsibility for, these landscapes.
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vi, 268 p.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-260)
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by Kelly Enright
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This work was subsequently published: Enright, Kelly. The maximum of wilderness: the jungle in the American imagination. University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 9780813932286 (cloth); ISBN 9780813932439 (Ebook)
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Ann V Fabian
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Paul Clemens
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Nigel Rothfels
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2009
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2009-10
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Kelly
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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