Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book

Professor Miller examines prominent writers and painters of nineteenth-century America who explored the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands. Through this examination, Miller discusses the changing social realities around the Civil War and the deep-seated personal pressures that the urbanised and technological environment had on these artists.Read More

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    An important though little understood aspect of the response to nature of nineteenth-century Americans is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles and other waste lands. 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 urbanized and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore the changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.

  • 0521375533
  • 9780521375535
  • David Miller
  • 26 June 1990
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 337
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