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Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape

How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture

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Oct 13, 2020
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2020
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8 color + 50 b/w illus.
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In nineteenth-century America, 鈥渁pocalypse鈥� referred not to the end of the world but to sacred revelation, and 鈥済eography鈥� meant both the physical landscape and its representation in printed maps, atlases, and pictures. In Apocalyptic Geographies, Jerome Tharaud explores how white Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to present the antebellum landscape as a 鈥渟acred space鈥� of spiritual pilgrimage, and how devotional literature influenced secular society in important and surprising ways.

Reading across genres and media鈥攊ncluding religious tracts and landscape paintings, domestic fiction and missionary memoirs, slave narratives and moving panoramas鈥�Apocalyptic Geographies 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鈥攆rom Thomas Cole鈥檚 The Oxbow to Harriet Beecher Stowe鈥檚 Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin and Henry David Thoreau鈥檚 Walden鈥攊nto new contexts, Tharaud traces the rise of evangelical media, the controversy and backlash it engendered, and the role it played in shaping American modernity.

Awards and Recognition

  • Finalist for the Religion and the Arts Book Award, American Academy of Religion