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Reimagining Environmental History provides a chronological and cross genre analysis of the environmental history of the Midwest. Knoeller provides a fresh and compelling perspective on many landscapes of the Midwest that include the Ohio River Valley, the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and lands of the Great Lakes, to stretches of tallgrass prairie and the High Plains of North America. The book is well-supported through careful reading of primary texts and parsing of secondary literature. - Susan Naramore Maher, author of Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains Knoeller's book is an important addition to ongoing scholarship on environmental history in literature, eco criticism, and the intersection of landscape and imaginative vision in literature. It is extremely well written in a voice that will reach scholarly communities and the general public pursuing insights and solutions to dealing with climate change. The research is meticulously careful and thorough. The approach is a close reading of texts leading to new insights on literary history, an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination, and an exquisitely clear memoir on the author's experiences which enrich the scholarship. - Ronald Primeau, author of Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry

Knoeller's book is an important addition to ongoing scholarship on environmental history in literature, eco criticism, and the intersection of landscape and imaginative vision in literature. It is extremely well written in a voice that will reach scholarly communities and the general public pursuing insights and solutions to dealing with climate change. The research is meticulously careful and thorough. The approach is a close reading of texts leading to new insights on literary history, an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination, and an exquisitely clear memoir on the author's experiences which enrich the scholarship. --Ronald Primeau, author of Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry

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Christian Knoeller is associate professor of English at Purdue University. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in ecocriticism and environmental history.

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