Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation

by Rochelle Johnson

Nineteenth-century Americans celebrated nature through many artistic forms, including natural-history writing, landscape painting, landscape design theory, and transcendental philosophy. Although we tend to associate these movements with the nation's dawning environmental consciousness, Passions for Nature demonstrates that they instead alienated Americans from the physical environment even as they seemed to draw people to it. Rather than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820332909
• ISBN13: 9780820332901
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"