Spirits of place in American literary culture /
Gatta, John,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
s Introduction 1. Houses of the Spirit Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Cather, Robinson, Gaines Transcendental and Other Soul-Shelters in Antebellum America Nathaniel Hawthorne's Home "Somewhere Else" Harriet's Houses When Houses are No Longer Homes 2. Spirits of Pilgrimage, Peregrination, and Re-Placement Lopez, Servid, Muir, Momaday, Bradstreet, Thoreau, Snyder, Berry, Haskell Moving On and Beginning Again From Pilgrim's Way to the Open Road Localism vs. Globalism Two Versions of Globally-Engaged Localism 3. The Place of Imagination Whitman, Nelson, Véa The Earthiness of Imagination and a Phenomenology of Place The Contemplative Reach of Imagination: Poetry of Walt Whitman and Marilyn Nelson Numinous Layerings of Place as Palimpsest 4. Sacred Sites and Geographies Thoreau, Tillinghast, Black Elk, Melville, Lincoln, Abbey, Williams, Norris, Day, Baldwin, Kazin Orientations of the Genius Loci Hallowed Battlegrounds and Burial Grounds The Spiritual Fecundity of Wastelands City Scenes of Grace 5. Contemplating Site-Based Education and Place-making Current Concepts and Practices of Site-Based Education The Rationale for Contemplative Learning in Place A Case-Study in Localized Learning Afterword.
Introduction -- Houses of the spirit: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Cather, Robinson, Gaines -- Spirits of pilgrimage, peregrination, and re-placement: Lopez, Servid, Muir Momaday, Bradstreet, Thoreau, Snyder, Berry, Haskell -- The place of imagination: Berry, Whitman, Nelson, Véa -- Sacred sites and geographies: Thoreau, Tillinghast, Black Elk, Melville, Lincoln, Abbey, Williams, Norris, Day, Baldwin, Kazin -- Contemplating site-based education and place-making -- Afterword.
American literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
Sacred space in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
American literature.
Home in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.