A language of things : Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zuber, Devin P., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
Subjects:
Swedenborg, Emanuel, > 1688-1772 > Influence.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, > 1688-1772.
1800-1899
Environmentalism > United States > Religious aspects > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Environmentalism > Religious aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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