David C. Miller

Dark Eden

The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Miller examines prominent writers and painters of nineteenth-century America who explored the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 856g
• ISBN-13: 9780521375535
• ISBN-10: 0521375533
• Artikelnr.: 33156962

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Matrix of Transformation: 1. To the lake of the dismal swamp: Porte Crayon's inward journey
2. The elusive Eden: the mid-Victorian response to the swamp
3. Mid-Victorian cultural values and the amoral landscape: the swamp image in the work of William Gilmore Simms and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Part II. The Phenomenology of Disintegration: 4. Frederic Church in the tropics
5. The penetration of the jungle
6. American nature writing in the mid-Victorian period: from pilgrimage to quest
7. A loss of vision: the cultural inheritance
8. A loss of vision: the challenge of the image
9. Infection and imagination: the swamp and the atmospheric analogy
Part III. The Circuit of Death and Regeneration: 10. Immersion and regeneration: Emerson and Thoreau
8. The identification with desert places: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
12. Religion, science, and nature: Sidney Lanier and Lafcadio Hearn
Conclusion: Katherine Anne Porter's Jungle and the Modernist idiom
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index.