{"product_id":"dark-eden-the-swamp-in-nineteenth-century-american-culture-cambridge-studies-in-american-literature-and-culture-series-number-43-0521375533","title":"Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 43)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521375533\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miller, David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important though little understood aspect of the response to nature of nineteenth-century Americans is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles and other waste lands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how, for many Americans in the period around the Civil War, nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanized and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore the changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979333239072,"sku":"NEW0521375533","price":157.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/dark-eden-the-swamp-in-nineteenth-century-american-culture-cambridge-studies-in-american-literature-and-culture-series-number-43-0521375533","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}