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Title: DARK EDEN
THE SWAMP IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE
By: David M. Miller
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0521375533
ISBN 13: 9780521375535
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 26 June, 1990
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture v. 43
Pages: 350
Description: Professor Miller examines prominent writers and painters of nineteenth-century America who explored the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands.
Synopsis: 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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Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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