A language of things: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination
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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville London
University of Virginia Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in religion and culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Swedenborg, Emanuel 1688-1772
/ Political ecology
/ USA
/ History 1800-1899
B Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 / Muir, John 1838-1914 / Jewett, Sarah Orne 1849-1909 / Transcendentalism / Romance |
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Environmentalism (United States)
Religious aspects
History 19th century
B Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772) Influence |
| Summary: | 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. "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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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-228 |
| ISBN: | 0813943515 |