Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780192894557
ISBN-13 : 0192894552
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874 by : John Evelev

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed minor or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.

The New Priest in Conception Bay

The New Priest in Conception Bay
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Publisher : Boston : Roberts
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN7UNP
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Rating : 4/5 (NP Downloads)

Synopsis The New Priest in Conception Bay by : Robert Lowell

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Total Pages : 780
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ISBN-10 : CHI:19479744
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Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli by : Margaret Fuller

Margaret

Margaret
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Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112002871066
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Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Margaret by : Sylvester Judd

The North American Review

The North American Review
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Total Pages : 542
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10540464
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Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The North American Review by :

Rude Republic

Rude Republic
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781400823611
ISBN-13 : 1400823617
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Rude Republic by : Glenn C. Altschuler

What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and widespread political enthusiasm. But rarely have these historians examined popular political engagement directly, or within the broader contexts of day-to-day life. In this bold and in-depth look at Americans and their politics, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin argue for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. Mining such sources as diaries, letters, autobiographies, novels, cartoons, contested-election voter testimony to state legislative committees, and the partisan newspapers of representative American communities ranging from Massachusetts and Georgia to Texas and California, the authors explore a wide range of political actions and attitudes. They consider the enthusiastic commitment celebrated by historians together with various forms of skepticism, conflicted engagement, detachment, and hostility that rarely have been recognized as part of the American political landscape. Rude Republic sets the political parties and their noisy and attractive campaign spectacles, as well as the massive turnout of voters on election day, within the communal social structure and calendar, the local human landscape of farms, roads, and county towns, and the organizational capacities of emerging nineteenth-century institutions. Political action and engagement are set, too, within the tide of events: the construction of the mass-based party system, the gathering crisis over slavery and disunion, and the gradual expansion of government (and of cities) in the post-Civil War era. By placing the question of popular engagement within these broader social, cultural, and historical contexts, the authors bring new understanding to the complex trajectory of American democracy.

The North American Review

The North American Review
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Total Pages : 542
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ISBN-10 : IOWA:31858028101024
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Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The North American Review by : Jared Sparks

Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 850
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105020082686
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by : James Anthony Froude