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Author Zuber, Devin P., 1978- author.

Title A language of things : Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination / Devin P. Zuber
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages)
Series Studies in religion and culture
Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2020)
Subject Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Influence
SUBJECT Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Influence
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 fast
Subject Environmentalism -- United States -- Religious aspects -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Environmentalism -- Religious aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019021594
ISBN 9780813943527
0813943523