Passions for nature
Subtitle: nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation
By: Rochelle L. Johnson.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780820332895; 9780820332901
Subjects: Natural history -- Philosophy -- United States -- 19th century; Natural history -- History -- United States -- 19th century; Philosophy of nature -- United States -- 19th century; Nature (Aesthetics) -- History -- United States -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nature and aesthetics in nineteenth-century America; title: Tracking nature's truth : Susan Fenimore Cooper; title: The metaphor of progress : Thomas Cole and the improvements of the American picturesque; title: The metaphor of refinement : Andrew Jackson Downing and the moral prescription for landscape; title: The metaphor of reason : Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental dominion; title: Passion for nature beyond metaphor : from Walden to Henry David Thoreau's late natural history projects; title: The canalization of metaphor.