Article ID: CBB000950061

Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea (2008)

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"Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's influence on Reformed culture in England and America reached Yosemite via three important paths: landscape architecture, landscape art, and literature. Paradise Lost had an especially large impact on the thought and works of John Muir. The conventions of the Miltonic Eden established in the nineteenth century continue to inform the dominant ways Americans envision Yosemite and the national parks today---for example, in the continued popularity of the work of Ansel Adams.

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Description “Investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Anders Larsson
Na Xiu
Gillian Daw
Maria Ignatieva
Shuoxin Zhang
Fengping Yang
Concepts
Science and religion
Science and literature
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Landscape architecture
Protestantism
Environmentalism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
Places
United States
Italy
California (U.S.)
Great Britain
England
Americas
Institutions
Yosemite National Park
United States. National Park Service
Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
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