A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden : The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks /
In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America's preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers' Camp," the...
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London :
Cornell University Press,
2015.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Nature and society
- Path to the Adirondacks
- Turning points
- The Crayon
- Adieu to the world
- The artist reborn
- Trial run
- The procession to the pines
- The camp and club
- Acclimating to the wild
- The worthy crew Chaucer never had
- Ampersand
- The inaugural meeting
- Campfire lore
- War
- Peace
- The ravages of modern improvement
- The old America and the new.