Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Country life
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Country life
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Country life
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368837052
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Country life
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Author : Rochelle Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820332895
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 see these expressions of passion for nature as initiating environmental awareness, this study reveals how they contributed to a culture that remains startlingly ignorant of the details of the material world. Using as a touchstone the writings of nineteenth-century philanthropist Susan Fenimore Cooper (the daughter of famed author James Fenimore Cooper), Passions for Nature reveals that while a generalized passion for nature was intense and widespread in her era, cultural attention to the "real" physical world was quite limited. Popular artistic forms represented the natural world through specific metaphors for the American experience, cultivating a national tradition of valuing nature in terms of humanity. Johnson crosses disciplinary boundaries to demonstrate that anthropocentric understandings of the natural world result not only from the growing gulf between science and imagination that C. P. Snow located in the early twentieth century but also--and surprisingly--from cultural productions traditionally viewed as positive engagements with the environment. By uncovering the roots of a cultural alienation from nature, Passions for Nature explains how the United States came to be a nation that simultaneously reveres the natural world and yet remains dangerously distant from it.
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1858
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 772 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Catherine McNeur
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1541674189
The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining "meticulous research and sensitive storytelling" (Janice P. Nimura, New York Times-bestselling author of The Doctors Blackwell) In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, sisters and scientists in early America. Margaretta, an entomologist, was famous among her peers and the public for her research on seventeen-year cicadas and other troublesome insects. Elizabeth, a botanist, was a prolific illustrator and a trusted supplier of specimens to the country’s leading experts. Together, their discoveries helped fuel the growth and professionalization of science in antebellum America. But these very developments confined women in science to underpaid and underappreciated roles for generations to follow, erasing the Morris sisters’ contributions along the way. Mischievous Creatures is an indelible portrait of two unsung pioneers, one that places women firmly at the center of the birth of American science.