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European Culture After The Franco-prussian War Of 1870-71 Was No Stranger To Ancient Beliefs In An Organic, Religiously Sanctioned, And Aesthetically Pleasing Relationship To The Land. The Many Resonances Of This Relationship Form A More Or Less Coherent Whole, In Which The Supposed Cosmopolitanism Of The Modern Age Is Belied By A Deep Commitment To Regional, Nationalist, And Civilizational Attachments, Including A Justifying Theological Armature, Much Of Which Is Still With Us Today. This Volume Untangles The Meaning Of The Vital Geographies Of The Period, Including How They Shaped Its Literature And Intellectual Life. Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Back To The Land After The Franco-prussian War -- Athens And Jerusalem: Autochthony, Promised Land, And The Roots Of Western Aesthetics -- Part I. The Return Of The Native: On The Autochthonous Imagination. After All, Anybody Is As Their Land And Air Is...: The Ground Of The Modern English Novel -- Blood And Soil: Otto Brunner In Southeast Germany -- A Different Passage To India: Ashis Nandy, Indic Civilization, And The Defense Of The Innocence -- Part Ii. Deracination And Promised Land. George Eliot's Spot Of A Native Land: Adam Bede Becomes Daniel Deronda -- Ezekiel Chastises His People: The Counter-reformation Argument Of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land -- Ezekiel Reclaims The Promised Land: T. S. Eliot And The Life Of Significant Soil -- Epilogue: Attachment, Belonging, And Heidegger's Blue Heaven -- Bibliography -- Index. Vincent P. Pecora. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.