Sanctified Landscape : Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909 /

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The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuyler, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Landscape protection > Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > History > 19th century.
Art History.
Literary Studies.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Tourists' River: Experiencing the Hudson Valley
  • 2. The Artist's River: Thomas Cole
  • 3. The Writers' River: Washington Irving and N. P. Willis
  • 4. The River in a Garden: A. J. Downing
  • 5. Change and the Search for Continuity at Midcentury
  • 6. Elegy for the Hudson River School: Jervis McEntee
  • 7. The Naturalist's River: John Burroughs
  • 8. A River in Time: Preserving Landscape, Celebrating History
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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