Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (360 p)
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8 color + 50 b/w illus
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780691203263
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Thomas Cole and the Landscape of Evangelical Print -- 2. Abolitionist Mediascapes: The American Anti-Slavery Society and the Sacred Geography of Emancipation -- 3. The Human Medium: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New-York Evangelist -- 4. Pilgrimage to the “Secular Center”: Tourism and the Sentimental Novel -- 5. Cosmic Modernity: Henry David Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and the Heathen Within -- 6. The Sensational Republic: Catholic Conspiracy and the Battle for the Great West -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
Inhalt:
How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American cultureIn nineteenth-century America, "apocalypse" referred not to the end of the world but to sacred revelation, and "geography" meant both the physical landscape and its representation in printed maps, atlases, and pictures. In Apocalyptic Geographies, Jerome Tharaud explores how white Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to present the antebellum landscape as a “sacred space” of spiritual pilgrimage, and how devotional literature influenced secular society in important and surprising ways.Reading across genres and media—including religious tracts and landscape paintings, domestic fiction and missionary memoirs, slave narratives and moving panoramas—Apocalyptic Geographies illuminates intersections of popular culture, the physical spaces of an expanding and urbanizing nation, and the spiritual narratives that ordinary Americans used to orient their lives. Placing works of literature and visual art—from Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden—into new contexts, Tharaud traces the rise of evangelical media, the controversy and backlash it engendered, and the role it played in shaping American modernity
Inhalt:
"This monograph argues that Protestant evangelicals used the rise of mass print culture in the nineteenth century to produce a modern form of "sacred space" that moved beyond devotional literature to profoundly shape popular literature, art, and politics. The author places well-known works of literature and visual art-Thomas Cole's 1836 painting The Oxbow, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, among others-into new contexts, showing the revelatory nature they contained for religious audiences. As the author demonstrates, the antebellum landscape meant more than physical territory to be conquered or new markets to be exploited: the land itself represented intense spiritual longing and struggle, a spiritual medium through which many Americans looked to see the state of their souls and the fate of the world unveiled"--
Anmerkung:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780691203263
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691203263
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691203263
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