Apocalyptic geographies : religion, media, and the American landscape / Jerome Tharaud.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0691203261
- 9780691203263
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Apocalypse in literature
- Landscapes in literature
- Evangelicalism in literature
- Landscape painting, American -- 19th century
- Apocalypse in art
- Spirituality in art
- American literature
- Apocalypse in art
- Apocalypse in literature
- Evangelicalism in literature
- Landscape painting, American
- Landscapes in literature
- Spirituality in art
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- 1800-1899
- 810.9/382 23
- PS217.A66 T43 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Evangelical Space. Thomas Cole and the Landscape of Evangelical Print -- Abolitionist Mediascapes: The American Anti-Slavery Society and the Sacred Geography of Emancipation -- The Human Medium: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New-York Evangelist -- Geographies of the Secular. Pilgrimage to the 'Secular Center': Tourism and the Calvinist Novel -- Cosmic Modernity: Henry David Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and the Heathen Within -- The Sensational Republic: Catholic Conspiracy and the Battle for the Great West -- Epilogue.
"This monograph argues that Protestant evangelicals used the rise of mass print culture in the nineteenth century to produce a modern form of "sacred space" that moved beyond devotional literature to profoundly shape popular literature, art, and politics. The author places well-known works of literature and visual art-Thomas Cole's 1836 painting The Oxbow, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, among others-into new contexts, showing the revelatory nature they contained for religious audiences. As the author demonstrates, the antebellum landscape meant more than physical territory to be conquered or new markets to be exploited: the land itself represented intense spiritual longing and struggle, a spiritual medium through which many Americans looked to see the state of their souls and the fate of the world unveiled"-- Provided by publisher.
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