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Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation / Rochelle L. Johnson.

By: Publication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.Description: xvii, 300 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780820332895 (alk. paper)
  • 0820332895 (alk. paper)
  • 9780820332901 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820332909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 508.01 22
LOC classification:
  • QH14.3 .J64 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Book Book NMC Library Stacks QH14.3 .J64 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001111722

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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