The Forest : : A Fable of America in the 1830s / / Alexander Nemerov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Nemerov, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 59 color + 7 b/w illus.

A vivid historical imagining of the lives of individuals—from painters, poets, and politicians to enslaved people, artisans, and travelers—in the early United StatesSet amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working throughout the country’s contemporary expanse. Some of the historical characters—such as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner—are well-known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs—makers of the worlds they inhabited.The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths or go their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For Alexander Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions of the people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America, illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs, The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author’s Note -- Part One: Herodotus among the Trees -- Part Two: The Tavern to the Traveler -- Part Three: Come, Thick Night -- Part Four: Panic -- Part Five: Animals Are Where They Are -- Part Six: The Clocks of Forestville -- Part Seven: Supernatural -- Part Eight: Four Greens -- Part Nine: Three Levitations -- Postscript: The Shield -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Credits