American writers and the picturesque tour : the search for national identity, 1790-1860
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書誌事項
American writers and the picturesque tour : the search for national identity, 1790-1860
（Garland studies in nineteenth-century American literature, vol. 7）（Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 1967）
Garland Pub., 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Explores a beloved genre
Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller.
Offers new perspectives
American writers adapted the picturesque to express their nationalistic sentiments; picturesque discourse offered a flexible series of conventions that enable writers to celebrate the places, people, and legends that set America apart. This volume demonstrates the vital role of this genre in the formation of national literary taste and national culture and offers fresh and exciting perspectives on the topic. Includes index. Also includes maps.
目次
Introduction * Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly: The Picturesque Traveler as Sleepwalker * Banqueting on the Picturesque: James Kirke Paulding in the 1820s and '30s * The Search for Manliness: Irving and Parkman in the West * Hawthorne's Ironic Traveler * Poe's Picturesque-Hunters * Excursions in New England: Thoreau as Picturesque Tourist * Conclusion
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