{"product_id":"dark-eden-david-miller-9780521147460","title":"Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture","description":"An 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521147468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521147460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.73d","brand":"David Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478337183999,"sku":"9780521147460","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_840f7b04-a374-428c-a6ba-be5485b0ee0f.jpg?v=1715934957","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dark-eden-david-miller-9780521147460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}