Out Doors At Idlewild Or The Shaping Of A Home On The Banks Of The Hudson
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Author |
: Nathaniel Parker Willis |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2021-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438486246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438486243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by : Nathaniel Parker Willis
During the 1850s and '60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary elites gathered and about which Willis himself wrote and published extensively. In 1846, Willis founded the Home Journal, which would go on to become Town and Country. In Out-Doors at Idlewild, first published in 1855, Willis chronicled the creation of his estate at Cornwall-on-Hudson (near West Point), as well as life amid its countryside. The land afforded brilliant views of the river and the mountains to the East. Calvert Vaux, the famed architect of both landscapes and houses, designed the elaborate and ornate Gothic Revival home, which Willis named Idlewood (whereas he called the estate Idlewild), and into which the Willis family moved in July of 1853. Here, Willis wrote a series of papers for the Home Journal documenting life at the seventy-acre estate. These papers were gathered together in Out-Doors at Idlewild, a celebration of Willis's home and estate.
Author |
: Nathaniel Parker Willis |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 1855 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOMDLP:abk3366:0001.001 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out-doors at Idlewild by : Nathaniel Parker Willis
Author |
: Frances F. Dunwell |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2008-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231136419 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231136412 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hudson by : Frances F. Dunwell
Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspires changes in American history and culture. Lavishly illustrated with color plates of Hudson River School paintings, period engravings, and glass plate photography, The Hudson captures the spirit of the river through the eyes of its many admirers. It shows the crucial role of the Hudson in the shaping of Manhattan, the rise of the Empire State, and the trajectory of world trade and global politics, as well as the river's influence on art and architecture, engineering, and conservation.
Author |
: Frances F. Dunwell |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231070438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231070430 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hudson River Highlands by : Frances F. Dunwell
Discusses the area's folklore and history, its portrayal in art, the role of West Point as a gateway to America, and the creation of Bear Mountain Park.
Author |
: Andrew Lyndon Knighton |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2012-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814748909 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814748902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Idle Threats by : Andrew Lyndon Knighton
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Author |
: Peggi Medeiros |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2020-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439669266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439669260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harriet Jacobs in New Bedford by : Peggi Medeiros
In 1861, Harriet Ann Jacobs published a masterpiece, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Her book is the first and only narrative to give voice to a woman who escaped slavery. Cornelia Grinnell Willis not only purchased Harriet's freedom, but she also developed a bond with Harriet and her daughter, Louisa, that lasted a lifetime. Both women suffered trauma as children and miraculously survived. They also had close ties to New Bedford that have not been examined previously. Cornelia married Nathaniel Parker Willis, considered an American Dickens during his lifetime though largely forgotten today. Join author and local historian Peggi Medeiros as she traces the fascinating lives of the Jacobs, Grinnell and Willis families in and out of New Bedford.
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Total Pages |
: 86 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X006101454 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journal of the New England Garden History Society by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1915 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89085050383 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bachelor's Theses Manuscript by :
This is a collection of theses completed to fulfill B.S. requirements in the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin, from 1895 to 1962.
Author |
: Nathaniel Parker Willis |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1418113743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781418113742 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, the Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson. by N. P. Willis by : Nathaniel Parker Willis
Author |
: Jean Yellin |
Publisher |
: Civitas Books |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015059960958 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harriet Jacobs by : Jean Yellin
For the first time--the complete story of the life and times of the most important black woman writer of the 19th century.