Language of Things
Subtitle: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813943503
Description: "This book considers the fundamental role that religious experience at times played in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Vachel Lindsay all variously responded to the philosophy and theosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold between the religious, the literary, and the ecological"--