David Schuyler

Sanctified Landscape

Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820 1909

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Produktbeschreibung

David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940¿1980; Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815¿1852; and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and is an editor of The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 196mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780801450808
• ISBN-10: 0801450802
• Artikelnr.: 34566065

Autorenporträt

David Schuyler

Inhaltsangabe

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