Spirits of place in American literary culture / John Gatta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatta, John, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 Houses of the Spirit p. 15

Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Gather, Robinson, Gaines

Transcendental and Other Soul Shelters in Antebellum America p. 15

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Home "Somewhere Else" p. 22

Harriet's Houses p. 29

When Houses Are No Longer Homes p. 43

2 Spirits of Pilgrimage, Peregrination, and Re-Placement p. 57

Lopez, Servid, Muir Momaday, Bradstreet, Thoreau, Snyder, Berry, Haskell

Moving On and Beginning Again p. 57

From Pilgrim's Way to the Open Road p. 72

Localism versus Globalism p. 83

Two Versions of Globally Engaged Localism p. 89

3 The Place of Imagination p. 105

Berry, Whitman, Nelson, Véa

The Earthiness of Imagination and a Phenomenology of Place p. 105

The Contemplative Reach of Imagination: Poetry of Walt Whitman and Marilyn Nelson p. 114

Numinous Layerings of Place as Palimpsest p. 127

4 Sacred Sites and Geographies p. 141

Thoreau, Tillinghast, Black Elk, Melville, Lincoln, Abbey, Williams, Norris, Day, Baldwin, Kazin

Orientations of the Genius Loci p. 141

Hallowed Battlegrounds and Burial Grounds p. 158

The Spiritual Fecundity of Wastelands p. 167

City Scenes of Grace p. 181

5 Contemplating Site-Based Education and Place-Making p. 197

Current Concepts and Practices of Site-Based Education p. 197

The Rationale for Contemplative Learning in Place p. 203

A Case Study in Localized Learning p. 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-276) and index.

ISBN:

0190646543

9780190646547

OCLC:

1019649962