The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 11)

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

by David Wyatt

In this book, David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that the encounter with landscape played an important role in literature of the West, and distinguishes this particular characteristic from the literatures of other American regions. Wyatt discusses in depth the writings of Dana, Leonard, Fremont, Muir, King, Austin, Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, Jeffers and Snyder and their literary reactions to the landscape. By examining the changing role of the landscape in literature of California, the book sheds new light on an important theme in the American creative popular consciousness.

300 pages, Paperback

First published June 27, 1986

About the author

Former professor of English at the University of Maryland.

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