Landscape and written expression in revolutionary America : the world turned upside down / Robert Lawson-Peebles.

Main entry:

Lawson-Peebles, Robert.

Title & Author:

Landscape and written expression in revolutionary America : the world turned upside down / Robert Lawson-Peebles.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Description:

xiii, 384 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [28]

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-369) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Prologue; 1. The triumph of Redcoatism; 2. A Republic of dreams; 3. Dreary wastes and awful solitude; 4. The natural limit of a republic; 5. Thomas Jefferson and the spacious field of imagination; 6. The Lewis and Clark Expedition; 7. The excursive imagination of Charles Brockden Brown; Epilogue.
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Summary:

This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. It argues that the cultural identity of the United States, like its political identity, emerged from a quarrel with the Old World. Europeans believed that the Revolution had 'turned the world upside down'. American intellectuals tried to construct a republic which refuted European criticism. They failed, but in failing they created an attitude to the terrain which became a central theme in American culture. The book employs the methods of perceptual geography and close textual analysis to examine images of the terrain and to propose close links between imaginative literature and a wide range of non-literary writing.

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ISBN:

0521346479
9780521346474

Subject:

American literature Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 History and criticism.
American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism.
Landscapes in literature.
Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism.
Littérature américaine 1775-1783 (Période révolutionnaire) Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine 1783-1850 Histoire et critique.
Paysages dans la littérature.
American literature.
American literature Revolutionary period (United States)
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Revolutionary literature, American.
Literatur
Landschaft
Geistesgeschichte
Landscape in literature
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Literature and the revolution.
United States Intellectual life 18th century.
United States Civilization To 1783.
United States Civilization 1783-1865.
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
États-Unis Civilisation Jusqu'à 1783.
États-Unis Civilisation 1783-1865.
United States.
USA
American culture, 1775-1789

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 28.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 34184
Call No.: ID:88-B5632
Status: Available

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