TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Rochelle
TI  - Passions for nature: nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation 
SN  - 9780820332895 (alk. paper)
AV  - QH14.3 .J64 2009
U1  - 508.01 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Natural history
KW  - United States
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Nature (Aesthetics)
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008037787.html
ER  -