Dark Eden : the swamp in ninteenth-century American culture / David C. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, David C. (David Cameron), 1951-

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Swamps--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Swamps.

Swamps in literature.

Eden in literature.

Social aspects.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 323 pages 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Contents:

Part I The Matrix of Transformation

1 To the lake of the dismal swamp: Porte Crayon's inward journey

2 The elusive Eden: the mid-Victorian response to the swamp

3 Mid-Victorian cultural values and the amoral landscape: the swamp image in the work of William Gilmore Simms and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Part II The Phenomenology of Disintegration

4 Frederic Church in the tropics

5 The penetration of the jungle

6 American nature writing in the mid-Victorian period: from pilgrimage to quest

7 A loss of vision: the cultural inheritance

8 A loss of vision: the challenge of the image

9 Infection and imagination: the swamp and the atmospheric analogy

Part III The Circuit of Death and Regeneration

10 Immersion and regeneration: Emerson and Thoreau

11 The identification with desert places: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

12 Religion, science, and nature: Sidney Lanier and Lafcadio Hearn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521375533

OCLC:

19626368