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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zuber, Devin P., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Planetary pictures
  • Psychogeographies of heaven and hell
  • Radical correspondence: Emerson's ray of relation
  • Heralds of a new gospel: John Muir and the San Francisco Swedenborgians
  • Homes for herons: the eco-aesthetics of Sarah Orne Jewett and George Inness.