Dark Eden : The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Name: Dark Eden
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521375535
Price: 18200 KES
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ISBN: 9780521375535

by David Miller

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 0521375533

ISBN-13 9780521375535

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 26th, 1990

Print length 350 Pages

Weight 845 grams

Dimensions 25.40 x 17.80 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: United States of America, USA English 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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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.

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.

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