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A language of things : Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination / Devin P. Zuber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuber, Devin P., 1978- author.
- Series:
- Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Studies in religion and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772--Influence.
- Swedenborg, Emanuel.
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.
- Environmentalism--United States--Religious aspects--History--19th century.
- Environmentalism.
- Environmentalism--Religious aspects.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zuber, Devin P., 1978- Language of things.
- ISBN:
- 9780813943510
- 9780813943503
- 0813943507
- 0813943515
- OCLC:
- 1091587452
- Publisher Number:
- 99983496261
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