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 : Princeton University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spirituality in art.
Apocalypse in art.
Landscape painting, American > 19th century.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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 Calvinist 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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