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Apocalyptic geographies : religion, media, and the American landscape / Jerome Tharaud.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tharaud, Jerome, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and cricitism.
- American literature.
- Religion and literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Evangelicalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In 'Apocalyptic Geographies', Jerome Tharaud explores how white Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to present the antebellum landscape as a 'sacred space' of spiritual pilgrimage, and how devotional literature influenced secular society in important and surprising ways.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Thomas Cole and the Landscape of Evangelical Print
- 2. Abolitionist Mediascapes: The American Anti-Slavery Society and the Sacred Geography of Emancipation
- 3. The Human Medium: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New-York Evangelist
- 4. Pilgrimage to the “Secular Center”: Tourism and the Sentimental Novel
- 5. Cosmic Modernity: Henry David Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and the Heathen Within
- 6. The Sensational Republic: Catholic Conspiracy and the Battle for the Great West
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780691200095
- 0691200092
- OCLC:
- 1198929834
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