John Evelev (Professor of English, Associate Professor of English,

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

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Produktbeschreibung

This work challenges dominant narratives of the concerns of nineteenth century literature to show how supposedly minor works of picturesque helped transform the American landscape, and create what we now recognize as the defining spaces of American life.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780192894557
• ISBN-10: 0192894552
• Artikelnr.: 60780838

Autorenporträt

John Evelev is Professor of English at the University of Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Picturesque Travel Sketch: Reading History and American
Exceptionalism on the Landscape
* 2: The City Sketch: The Urban Picturesque and Writing Middle-Class
Identity on the Streets of Antebellum New York
* 3: Rus-Urban Imaginings: The American Park Movement and
Representations of Social Space in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
* 4: The Country Book: The Picturesque Negotiation of Male Privacy and
Intimacy in the Antebellum Suburbs
* 5: "The Great American Novel, New England Style": New England Village
Novel and the Picturesque
* Epilogue