Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-282) and index.
Contents
Landfall: the new world as new creation -- Meditating on the creatures in early American life and letters -- Intimations of an environmental ethic in the writings of Jonathan Edwards -- "Revelation to US": green shoots of romantic religion in antebellum America -- Variations on nature: from the old manse to the white whale -- "Rare and delectable places": Thoreau's imagination of sacred space at Walden -- Post-Darwinian visions of divine creation -- Imagined worlds: the lure of numinous exoticism -- Reclaiming the sacred commons -- Learning to love creation: the religious tenor of contemporary ecopoetry.
