Johnson, Rochelle. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780820332895 (alk. paper) 0820332895 (alk. paper) 9780820332901 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0820332909 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008037787 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA940440  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015117944  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Natural history--Philosophy--United States--19th century.<br/>Natural history--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Philosophy of nature--United States--19th century.<br/>Nature (Aesthetics)--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH14.3  / .J64 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>508.01