The Farther Shore (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Don Gifford
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Cultural history
- Time of Work: c. 1750-1988
- Setting: Great Britain and the United States
- Principal Characters: Gilbert White, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry David Thoreau
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Literature, Photography or photographers, Popular culture, Television or television broadcasting, Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Natural history
- Locales: United States, Great Britain
As the dedicated work of an eminent scholar and teacher of literature, The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984 by Don Gifford partially exists to demonstrate that people on the “farther shore” of the eighteenth century and before, and even in “midstream” between then and the late twentieth century, perceived a different world differently. Thus, the question of one of Gifford’s former students as to who wrote the Gettysburg address for President Abraham Lincoln—a question that makes perfect sense in the contemporary world of “a thousand points...
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