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Apocalyptic Geographies
Jerome Tharaud
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture
In 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.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Methodism, Literature, Visual culture, American Anti-Slavery Society, Sermon, Spiritual autobiography, Narrative, Pamphlet, God, Charles Grandison Finney, Jeremiad, William Apess, Religious text, The Pilgrim's Progress, Modernity, Christian mission, S. (Dorst novel), Rhetoric, Protestantism, Uncle Tom, Heathenry (new religious movement), Transcendentalism, Lydia Maria Child, Christianity, Theology, Henry David Thoreau, Lyman Beecher, Newspaper, Millennialism, Phillis Wheatley, Evangelicalism, Princeton University Press, Illustration, Landscape painting, Publication, Frederic Edwin Church, Baptists, American Antiquarian Society, Theodicy, Slavery, Americans, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Lecture, Public sphere, Susan Warner, Missionary, Print culture, Allegory, Mediascape, Piety, Despotism, Secularization, Abolitionism, Novelist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mr., Wai Chee Dimock, Calvinism, Old Testament, Missionary (LDS Church), Religion, The Heathen, American Tract Society, Postmillennialism, Publishing, Writing, Congregational church, Ideology, Sacred history