Reviewed by Angela Ashurst-McGee Utah State University This book began as Marni Asplund-Campbell’s “personal search for mother-texts” that were neither technical nor dogmatic, neither vague nor sentimental (ix). (245) In such a passage, The Death of Adam makes the reader face the probable consequences of the systems of thought that have shaped the modem world. We are caught up in something much larger than its innumerable manifestations. This is, I think, like quarreling over which shadow brings evening. Our causes have even jostled for attention, each claiming a special urgency.
For decades, environmentalists have concerned themselves with this spill and that encroachment, this depletion and that extinction, as if such phenomena were singular and exceptional. Consider how compellingly she can state the problem: One need not have an especially excitable or a particularly gloomy nature to be persuaded that we may be approaching the end of the day. Lyon and other critics say is its postfrontier phase, many western writers will continue to warn about our self-destructive civilization as part of that prophesying, Robinson’s articulation of our self-endangerment may become a major force in changing our thinking. As western American literature develops in what Thomas J. She writes: “I am an American of the kind whose family sought out wilderness generation after generation” (246). Robinson’s view of wilderness comes not only from her think ing about contemporary environmental issues but also from her family’s western heritage. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ī o o k R e v i e w s 2 6 1 points out that in environmentalists’ self-satisfaction at having reached some of their environmental goals, such as saving the last few redwood trees, they may ignore a civilization eager to clear-cut any other unpro tected forests.
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