Apocalyptic Geographies : : Religion, Media, and the American Landscape /

Apocalyptic Geographies : : Religion, Media, and the American Landscape / / Jerome Tharaud.

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...

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Tharaud, Jerome,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 8 color + 50 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Evangelical Space
  • 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
  • Part II. Geographies of the Secular
  • 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

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