Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation

by Rochelle Johnson

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Nineteenth-century Americans celebrated nature through many artistic forms, including natural-history writing, landscape painting, landscape design theory, and transcendental philosophy. Although we tend to associate these movements with the nation's dawning environmental consciousness, Passions for Nature demonstrates that they instead alienated Americans from the physical environment even as they seemed to draw people to it. Rather than...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0820332909

ISBN13:9780820332901

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Nature

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