[Pdr] Nature fakers

[Jonathan Gray]

Cool!

Also reminds me of our John Muir piece - which made me curious about
timing. Was this earlier?

J.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Adam Green
<mradamrgreen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> YES looks great , i'll get on it.. Fanks!!
>
> On 20 July 2012 09:53, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Possible PDR article or collection?
>>
>>
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>> Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:00 AM
>> Subject: [Daily article] July 20: Nature fakers controversy
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>>
>> The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American
>> literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment
>> in popular nature writing. Following a period of growing interest in the
>> natural world beginning in the late 19th century, a new literary
>> movement, in which the natural world was depicted in a compassionate
>> rather than realistic light, began to take shape. Works such as Ernest
>> Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) and William J. Long's
>> School of the Woods (1902) popularized this new genre and emphasized
>> sympathetic and individualistic animal characters. In March 1903,
>> naturalist and writer John Burroughs published an article entitled "Real
>> and Sham Natural History" in the Atlantic Monthly. Lambasting writers
>> for their seemingly fantastical representations of wildlife, he also
>> denounced the booming genre of realistic animal fiction as "yellow
>> journalism of the woods". Burroughs' targets responded in defense of
>> their work in various publications, as did their supporters, and the
>> resulting controversy raged in the public press for nearly six years.
>> Dubbed the "War of the Naturalists", the controversy effectively ended
>> when President Theodore Roosevelt publicly sided with Burroughs,
>> publishing his article "Nature Fakers" in the September 1907 issue of
>> Everybody's Magazine. Roosevelt popularized the negative colloquialism
>> by which the controversy would later be known to describe one who
>> purposefully fabricates details about the natural world.
>>
>> Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_fakers_controversy>
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