Introduction: Nature and aesthetics in nineteenth-century America
Tracking nature's truth : Susan Fenimore Cooper
The metaphor of progress : Thomas Cole and the improvements of the American picturesque
The metaphor of refinement : Andrew Jackson Downing and the moral prescription for landscape
The metaphor of reason : Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental dominion
Passion for nature beyond metaphor : from Walden to Henry David Thoreau's late natural history projects
Conclusion: The canalization of metaphor.
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Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America's aesthetics of alienation by Rochelle Johnson. ISBN 9780820332895. Published by University of Georgia Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
