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A language of things : Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination /
"This book considers the fundamental role that religious experience at times played in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Vachel Lindsay all variously responded to the philosophy and th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book considers the fundamental role that religious experience at times played in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Vachel Lindsay all variously responded to the philosophy and theosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold between the religious, the literary, and the ecological"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813943527 0813943523 |