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Making nature sacred : literature, religion, and environment in America from the Puritans to the present
Author
Title
Making nature sacred : literature, religion, and environment in America from the Puritans to the present / John Gatta.
ISBN
0195165055
9780195165050
0195165063
9780195165067
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-282) and index.
Contents
Landfall: the new world as new creation
Meditating on the creatures in early American life and letters
Intimations of an environmental ethic in the writings of Jonathan Edwards
"Revelation to US": green shoots of romantic religion in antebellum America
Variations on nature: from the old manse to the white whale
"Rare and delectable places": Thoreau's imagination of sacred space at Walden
Post-Darwinian visions of divine creation
Imagined worlds: the lure of numinous exoticism
Reclaiming the sacred commons
Learning to love creation: the religious tenor of contemporary ecopoetry.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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