Dark Eden

The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

By:

David Miller

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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.

Release date Australia

August 26th, 2010

Author

David Miller

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

350

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

178x254x19

ISBN-13

9780521147460

Product ID

6708405

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