A language of things : Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination / Devin P. Zuber.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813943527
- 0813943523
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Influence
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Influence
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
- Environmentalism -- United States -- Religious aspects -- History -- 19th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Environmentalism -- Religious aspects
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- United States
- 1800-1899
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- GE197 .Z83 2019
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"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2020).
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.
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