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Spirits of place in American literary culture
What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete sites or dwelling places on earth? This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective on the matter. Blending theological and cultural analysis, it focuses on the multi-layered witness enshrined in American literary texts and demonstrates that hallowed geography and the sacramentality of place have mattered throughout our history.
Introduction -- Houses of the spirit: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Cather, Robinson, Gaines -- Spirits of pilgrimage, peregrination, and re-placement: Lopez, Servid, Muir Momaday, Bradstreet, Thoreau, Snyder, Berry, Haskell -- The place of imagination: Berry, Whitman, Nelson, Véa -- Sacred sites and geographies: Thoreau, Tillinghast, Black Elk, Melville, Lincoln, Abbey, Williams, Norris, Day, Baldwin, Kazin -- Contemplating site-based education and place-making -- Afterword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.