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Divine Cosmos : Humboldt's Ecology in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nossaman, Lucas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859--Influence.
- Humboldt, Alexander von.
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859. Kosmos.
- Natural theology in literature.
- Cosmology in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- Tells the story of how 19th-century American writers re-envisioned science and religion in the age of German naturalist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt's "cosmic" ecology.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: American Science and Natural Theology in the Cosmos
- Chapter 2: Writing a Wondrous Earth: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Episcopalian Ecology
- Chapter 3: These Objects Make a World: Henry David Thoreau's Protestant Science
- Chapter 4: The Cosmic Natural Theology of Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom
- Chapter 5: Possessive Providential Ecology: The Imperialist Histories of Herman Melville and William Gilmore Simms
- Coda: A Secular Cosmos: George Perkins Marsh's Modern Ecological Rhetoric
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9798765125663
- 9798765125670
- OCLC:
- 1493079036
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