Et In America Ego : Nature, Culture, And The Dismantling Of The Frontier In Thoreau, Faulkner, And Cormac Mccarthy

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    “Et   in    America   Ego” Nature,   Culture,   and   the   Dismantling   of   the   Frontier   in   Thoreau,   Faulkner,   and   Cormac   McCarthy   An   Honors   Thesis   Submitted   to   the   Dartmouth   College   Department   of   English   Geoffrey   R.   Kirsch         “Et in America Ego”    Nature, Culture, and the Dismantling of the Frontier inThoreau, Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy An Honors Thesis Submitted to the Dartmouth College Department of English by Geoffrey R. Kirsch, Class of 2009Advisor: Professor Donald E. PeaseMay 2009     Kirsch iv   Contents   Acknowledgments vIntroduction: The Death of the Frontier and the Birthof Environmentalism 2Chapter One: Fronting IT: From  A Week  to Walden 35Chapter Two: A Word for Nature: Subversion and Science 64Chapter Three: The Land’s Turn: Faulkner and the Revenge of Nature 105Works Cited 139 Cover image: Andrew Melrose, “Westward the Star of Empire,” 1867.