Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation /
Johnson, Rochelle.
Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation / Rochelle L. Johnson. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009. - xvii, 300 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index.
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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Natural history--Philosophy--United States--19th century.
Natural history--History--United States--19th century.
Philosophy of nature--United States--19th century.
Nature (Aesthetics)--History--United States--19th century.
QH14.3 / .J64 2009
508.01
Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation / Rochelle L. Johnson. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009. - xvii, 300 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index.
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.
9780820332895 (alk. paper) 0820332895 (alk. paper) 9780820332901 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0820332909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008037787
GBA940440 bnb
015117944 Uk
Natural history--Philosophy--United States--19th century.
Natural history--History--United States--19th century.
Philosophy of nature--United States--19th century.
Nature (Aesthetics)--History--United States--19th century.
QH14.3 / .J64 2009
508.01