Apocalyptic geographies : religion, media, and the American landscape /

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"This monograph argues that Protestant evangelicals used the rise of mass print culture in the nineteenth century to produce a modern form of "sacred space" that moved beyond devotional literature to profoundly shape popular literature, art, and politics. The author places well-known...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tharaud, Jerome, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Apocalypse in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Landscape painting, American > 19th century.
Apocalypse in art.
Spirituality in art.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Fin du monde dans la littérature.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Évangélisme dans la littérature.
Peinture de paysages américaine > 19e siècle.
Fin du monde dans l'art.
Spiritualité dans l'art.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American literature
Apocalypse in art
Apocalypse in literature
Evangelicalism in literature
Landscape painting, American
Landscapes in literature
Spirituality in art
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Evangelical Space. Thomas Cole and the Landscape of Evangelical Print
  • Abolitionist Mediascapes: The American Anti-Slavery Society and the Sacred Geography of Emancipation
  • The Human Medium: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New-York Evangelist
  • Geographies of the Secular. Pilgrimage to the 'Secular Center': Tourism and the Sentimental Novel
  • Cosmic Modernity: Henry David Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and the Heathen Within
  • The Sensational Republic: Catholic Conspiracy and the Battle for the Great West
  • Epilogue.

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