The American landscape : literary sources & documents
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The American landscape : literary sources & documents
（The Helm Information literary sources & documents series）
Helm Information, c1993
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The American landscape : literary sources and documents
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Bibliography: p. 52-61
vol. 2は別書誌<BA20406511>, vol. 3は別書誌<BA20406839>
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Description
This critical and cultural overview of American landscape and travel literature draws on sources from the 17th through 19th centuries, and includes diaries and journals, travelogues, guide-books, essays, lectures and poems. The material includes writings on the Puritan response, pre-colonial eighteenth century accounts, the immediate post-colonial period, expeditions, surveys, the picturesque and the sublime, wilderness literature, the West, the South, New England, Transcendentalism, California, the Hudson River School, Luminism, the Rocky Mountains and Plains. Also includes maps.
Table of Contents
- Volume I The American landscape: first impressions
- the puritan image
- the 18th-century - travellers in America, the poetic response, the landscape as territory
- the landscape as cultural icon
- European observations
- cultural perspectives. Volume II The American image: landscape as symbol and myth in the 19th-century: Eastern lands and light - transcendentalism
- picturesque America
- America and the landscape painter
- a southern voice
- the novelist and the landscape - two views. Volume III The expanding continent - landscape, expeditions and emigrants - a chronological review of the 19th-century
- the 20th century - a dissenting voice.
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