An important though little understood aspect of the response of nineteenth-century Americans to nature is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how for many Americans in the period around the Civil War nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanised and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole…mehr
An important though little understood aspect of the response of nineteenth-century Americans to nature is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how for many Americans in the period around the Civil War nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanised and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers and artists found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.
David Miller, estadounidense de origen, ha vivido en Bolivia desde 1981, sirviendo a los pueblos indígenas de los Andes como evangelista itinerante y maestro de la Biblia. También es periodista, trabajando como corresponsal de agencias de noticias con enfoque en derechos humanos, la libertad religiosa y la persecución de cristianos. Entre sus otros libros es el más vendido El Señor de Bellavista: La historia dramática de una prisión transformada, y Cántico de Viracocha: El impacto del evangelio en los pueblos andinos de Bolivia. Reside en Cochabamb Bolivia con su esposa Barbara. Los Miller han sido bendecidos con cuatro hijos adultos y cinco nietos excepcionalmente inteligentes.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The Matrix of Transformation: 1. To the lake of the dismal swamp: Porte Crayon's inward journey 2. The elusive Eden: the mid-Victorian response to the swamp 3. Mid-Victorian cultural values and the amoral landscape: the swamp image in the work of William Gilmore Simms and Harriet Beecher Stowe Part II. The Phenomenology of Disintegration: 4. Frederic Church in the tropics 5. The penetration of the jungle 6. American nature writing in the mid-Victorian period: from pilgrimage to quest 7. A loss of vision: the cultural inheritance 8. A loss of vision: the challenge of the image 9. Infection and imagination: the swamp and the atmospheric analogy Part III. The Circuit of Death and Regeneration: 10. Immersion and regeneration: Emerson and Thoreau 8. The identification with desert places: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 12. Religion, science, and nature: Sidney Lanier and Lafcadio Hearn Conclusion: Katherine Anne Porter's Jungle and the Modernist idiom Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The Matrix of Transformation: 1. To the lake of the dismal swamp: Porte Crayon's inward journey 2. The elusive Eden: the mid-Victorian response to the swamp 3. Mid-Victorian cultural values and the amoral landscape: the swamp image in the work of William Gilmore Simms and Harriet Beecher Stowe Part II. The Phenomenology of Disintegration: 4. Frederic Church in the tropics 5. The penetration of the jungle 6. American nature writing in the mid-Victorian period: from pilgrimage to quest 7. A loss of vision: the cultural inheritance 8. A loss of vision: the challenge of the image 9. Infection and imagination: the swamp and the atmospheric analogy Part III. The Circuit of Death and Regeneration: 10. Immersion and regeneration: Emerson and Thoreau 8. The identification with desert places: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 12. Religion, science, and nature: Sidney Lanier and Lafcadio Hearn Conclusion: Katherine Anne Porter's Jungle and the Modernist idiom Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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