{"product_id":"apocalyptic-geographies-jerome-tharaud-9780691200101","title":"Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading across genres and media--including religious tracts and landscape paintings, domestic fiction and missionary memoirs, slave narratives and moving panoramas--\u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Oxbow\u003c\/i\u003e to Harriet Beecher Stowe's \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e and Henry David Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerome Tharaud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691200106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691200101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021","brand":"Jerome Tharaud","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126635819263,"sku":"9780691200101","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8e8979b-d440-470e-9baf-a4295c7dad89.jpg?v=1687449293","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/apocalyptic-geographies-jerome-tharaud-9780691200101","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}