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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1. Verfasser: Zuber, Devin P. 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville ; London University of Virginia Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Studies in religion and culture
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:XVI, 245 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9780813943503
9780813943510

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