Title & Author:

Views of American landscapes / edited by Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Description:

xxiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles -- "Gilded backgrounds" / Clive Bush -- The impermanent sublime / Olaf Hansen -- American landscape and the figure of anticipation / Stephen Fender -- Trails of topographic notions / Philip Stokes -- The absent landscape of America's eighteenth century / Robert Clark -- Ecriture and landscape / Christopher Mulvey -- Dickens goes west / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- The Old World and the New in the national landscapes of John Neal / Francesca Orestano -- Landscape painting and the domestic typology of post-revolutionary America / Graham Clarke -- Winter landscape in the early Republic / Bernard Mergen -- The dark view of things / Allen J. Koppenhaver -- The figure of the Indian in photographic landscapes / Mick Gidley.

Summary:

This collection of essays addresses the ways in which American and British writers, painters and photographers have represented the American environment. Focusing on such figures as Jefferson, Cr̈vecoeur, John Neal, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Thomas Cole, Samuel Morse, Fanny Kemble, Dickens, Hawthorne, Clarence King and Edward Curtis, the authors explore the preconceptions, ideologies, and rhetorical and aesthetic conventions that shaped attitudes to the North American continent. With its numerous illustrations, including early photographs of the American West, this book will appeal to both scholars and students with an interest in American literature, history and culture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521364353
9780521364355

Subject:

Landscapes in art.
Art, American.
English literature History and criticism.
Paysages dans l'art.
Art américain.
Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique.
English literature
Literature
Landschaft
Landschaftsmalerei
Literatur
Paysage Dans l'art.
Paysage États-Unis.
Art Etats-Unis Thèmes, motifs.
Landschaft (Motiv)
United States In art.
United States In literature.
United States
USA
États-Unis Dans l'art.
États-Unis Dans la littérature.
Arts Special subjects: North America Landscape

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Art
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Gidley, M. (Mick)
Lawson-Peebles, Robert.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 58957
Call No.: ID:90-B7107
Status: Available