Making nature sacred: literature, religion, and environment in America from the Puritans to the present
John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. 'Making Nature Sacred' explores how the quest for 'natural revelation' has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual h...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York Oxford
Oxford University Press
2004
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| In: | Year: 2004 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Literature
/ The Holy
/ Environment (Motif)
/ Nature protection (Motif)
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion in literature
B Holy, The, in literature B Natural History (United States) B Religion and literature (United States) B Ecocriticism (United States) B Ecocriticism United States B PS 85-173 History American lit-genl B American literature History and criticism B Natural History Religious aspects B Ecology in literature B Natural History United States B Historical literary criticism B Religion and literature United States |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. 'Making Nature Sacred' explores how the quest for 'natural revelation' has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780199835140 0199835144 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/0195165055.001.0001 |
