Sanctified Landscape : : Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909 / / David Schuyler.
The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 33 halftones, 14 color plates |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Index