{"product_id":"a-language-of-things-9780813943510","title":"A Language of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a critical attempt to restore the fundamental role that religious experience could play in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. Devin Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic unfolded between the religious, the literary, and the ecological.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Language of Things\u003c\/i\u003e represents an important contribution to our understanding of American culture, religious history, and environmental history. It offers a searching, thoroughly researched explanation of how and why Emanuel Swedenborg and his followers helped to spark that Romantic re-enchantment of the natural world championed by nineteenth-century figures such as John Chapman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, sustained as well by later figures such as John Muir and Sarah Orne Jewett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn engaging, enlightening, and much needed examination of the influence of Swedenborg's ideas on prominent environmental thinkers and writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP-VIR Uni of Virginia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038429315415,"sku":"9780813943510","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813943510.jpg?v=1750940289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-language-of-things-9780813943510","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}