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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (266 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813943527 |