Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture

ISBN-13: 9780190646547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str.

John Gatta

Recenzje

John Gatta's new book is a thoughtful and learned exposition of the power of place and setting in American literature, by a critic and scholar at the height of his own powers. In his wonderful and reader-friendly accounts of writers with an intense imaginative focus on nature and setting, Gatta's analysis presents the multiple meanings of sacred space in American culture. I highly recommend this volume to all readers interested in the beauty and wonder evoked by great poems, stories, memoirs, and even such cultural sites as monuments, battlegrounds, and burial sites.

O autorze

John Gatta is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Sewanee: The University of the South. He is the author of Making Nature Sacred (OUP 2004) and numerous other publications concerned with American literature and the interplay between religion and literature.