Passions for nature nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation
Introduction: Nature and aesthetics in nineteenth-century America -- Tracking nature's truth : Susan Fenimore Cooper -- The metaphor of progress : Thomas Cole and the improvements of the American picturesque -- The metaphor of refinement : Andrew Jackson Downing and the moral prescription for l...
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Athens u.a.
University of Georgia Press
2009
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Nature and aesthetics in nineteenth-century America -- Tracking nature's truth : Susan Fenimore Cooper -- The metaphor of progress : Thomas Cole and the improvements of the American picturesque -- The metaphor of refinement : Andrew Jackson Downing and the moral prescription for landscape -- The metaphor of reason : Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental dominion -- Passion for nature beyond metaphor : from Walden to Henry David Thoreau's late natural history projects -- Conclusion: The canalization of metaphor. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 300 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0820332895 0-8203-3289-5 0820332909 0-8203-3290-9 9780820332895 978-0-8203-3289-5 9780820332901 978-0-8203-3290-1 |