The Story of My Heart

The Story of My Heart is a book first published in 1883 by English nature writer, essayist, and journalist Richard Jefferies.

The book has been described as a "spiritual autobiography" where Jefferies idealises the English countryside as a sort of utopia. The book and its themes have been compared to the transcendentalist movement.^[1] Other Transcendentalist themes concerning rapturous union with Nature can be found in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and John Muir. The scholar Roger Ebbatson considers that the book's "speculative" spiritualism is emblematic of the decline of Christian belief in the more empirical Victorian era.^[2]

^ Corporaal, Marguérite; Evert Jan, van Leeuwen (2010). The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910. Rodopi. p. 131. ISBN 978-9042029996.
^ Ebbatson, Roger (2006). Heidegger's Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts. Sussex Academic Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1845191054.

[Utopias-1] Corporaal, Marguérite; Evert Jan, van Leeuwen (2010). The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910. Rodopi. p. 131. ISBN 978-9042029996.

[Ebbatson-2] Ebbatson, Roger (2006). Heidegger's Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts. Sussex Academic Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1845191054.

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