TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zuber,Devin P.
TI  - A language of things: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination 
T2  - Studies in religion and culture
SN  - 9780813943527
AV  - GE197 .Z83 2019
U1  - 261.8/8 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Swedenborg, Emanuel,
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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