Riverscapes and national identities /

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Tricia Cusack explores the significance of painted riverscapes for the creation of national identities in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and America. Focusing on five rivers--the Hudson, the Volga, the Seine, the Thames, and the Shannon--the author shows how just as ancient river myt...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cusack, Tricia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©2010.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Space, place, and society.
Sujets:
Rivers in art.
Rivers > Social aspects.
Nationalism.
Water and civilization.
Nationalisme.
Eau et civilisation.
nationalism.
ART > Art & Politics.
ART > History > General.
Rivieren.
Riviergezichten.
Landschappen.
Schilderkunst.
Nationale identiteit.
Europa (geografie)
Verenigde Staten.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: riverscapes and national identities
  • The chosen people: The Hudson River School and the construction of American identity
  • THe Victorian Thames: England's silver stream or Britain's "monster soup"?
  • Impression of leisure on the Seine: national identity and forgetting in the French third republic
  • "Our Russian essence": the Volga riverscape and cultural nationalism
  • Shannon riverscapes: myth and modernity in the making of Ireland
  • Naturalizing the nation: sacred riverscapes and the flow of history.

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