TY - BOOK ID - 136923791 TI - A language of things PY - 2019 SN - 0813943523 9780813943527 9780813943503 0813943507 PB - Charlottesville DB - UniCat KW - Environmentalism KW - Religious aspects KW - History KW - Swedenborg, Emanuel, KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136923791 AB - "This book considers the fundamental role that religious experience at times played in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Vachel Lindsay all variously responded to the philosophy and theosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold between the religious, the literary, and the ecological"-- ER -