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Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Miller, David C.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 43

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521375533
ISBN13: 9780521375535
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 26 1990
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.81
Height: 0.81 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.

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