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A Language of Things - Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination (Paperback)
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A Language of Things - Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Religion and Culture
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Long overlooked, the natural philosophy and theosophy of the
Scandinavian scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
made a surprising impact in America. Thomas Jefferson, while
president, was so impressed with the message of a Baltimore
Swedenborgian minister that he invited him to address both houses
of Congress. But Swedenborgian thought also made its contribution
to nineteenth-century American literature, particularly within the
aesthetics of American Transcendentalism. Although various scholars
have addressed how American Romanticism was affected by different
currents of Continental thought and religious ideology,
surprisingly no book has yet described the specific ways that
American Romantics made persistent recourse to Swedenborg for their
respective projects to re-enchant nature. In A Language of Things,
Devin Zuber offers a critical attempt to restore the fundamental
role that religious experience could play in shaping
nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing
the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett,
and Vachel Lindsay all variously responded to Swedenborgian
thought, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold
between the religious, the literary, and the ecological.
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