Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation / Rochelle L. Johnson.
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)
- 508.01 22
- QH14.3 .J64 2009
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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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