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Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation
Rochelle Johnson
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Description for Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation
Paperback. Nineteenth-century Americans celebrated nature through many artistic forms. Although we tend to associate these movements with the nation's dawning environmental consciousness, this book demonstrates that they instead alienated Americans from the physical environment even as they seemed to draw people to it. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 colour & 9 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JHMC; WN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
How truly close to nature were our forebears? 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 see these expressions of passion for nature as initiating environmental awareness, this study reveals how they contributed to a culture that remains startlingly ignorant of the details of the material world. Using as a touchstone the ... Read more
How truly close to nature were our forebears? 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 see these expressions of passion for nature as initiating environmental awareness, this study reveals how they contributed to a culture that remains startlingly ignorant of the details of the material world. Using as a touchstone the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820332901
SKU
V9780820332901
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About Rochelle Johnson
Rochelle L. Johnson is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at the College of Idaho and immediate past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
Reviews for Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation
Passions for Nature is a magnificent and exciting book, thoroughly grounded in literary studies and in original readings of nineteenth-century literature, the visual arts, and landscape design. It has sweeping implications for new work and it ends with thought-provoking conclusions about our situation today. - Laura Dassow Walls, author of Emerson's Life in Science ""[A] compelling defense of the neglected ... Read more