By the late nineteenth century the wilderness sublime had been domesticated into sentimentality

Evidence

The wilderness was still sacred, but the religious sentiments it evoked were more those of a pleasant parish church than those of a grand cathedral or a harsh desert retreat. — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 22

Categorization

• CANDY: Lovely, compact image of wilderness piety downgrading from grand cathedral to pleasant parish church — easy to repeat.
• XREF: connects to: Early romantic writers experienced the sublime as terror, not pleasure — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 16; The sublime and the frontier jointly remade wilderness into its modern form — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 12; Before the nineteenth century, wilderness meant wasteland and evoking terror, not beauty — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 8 (+1 more)

Related

• Before the nineteenth century, wilderness meant wasteland and evoking terror, not beauty (similarity 0.91)
• The word wilderness once meant desolate wasteland, not sacred refuge (similarity 0.88)
• The sublime and the frontier jointly remade wilderness into its modern form (similarity 0.86)
• Wilderness appreciation was an elite urban leisure projection, not a rural ideal. (similarity 0.84)
• Tourist spectating converted sublime terror into comfortable sentiment (similarity 0.83)
• Wilderness originally signified biblical places of moral peril and exile (similarity 0.82)
• Wilderness wonder is a cultural state of mind, not a natural fact (similarity 0.82)
• Wilderness is a cultural construction, not an untouched natural sanctuary (similarity 0.82)
• Wilderness is a state of mind defined by wonder, not a fact of nature (similarity 0.82)
• Wilderness recreation is a class privilege that devalues rural land-based labor (similarity 0.80)
• Wilderness is a cultural construct, not a place that exists apart from humanity (similarity 0.79)
• Early romantic writers experienced the sublime as terror, not pleasure (similarity 0.79)
• William Cronon — The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Wilderness is a cultural construction, not an untouched natural sanctuary #qualifies (0.82) — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 5