Tourism emerged as an important cultural activity in the United States in the 1820s as steamboats and canals allowed for greater mobility and an interest in scenery began to permeate the work of both serious and popular writers and artists. Literally thousands of images and descriptions of America's tourist attractions were produced for the numerous guidebooks and other publications devoted to travel in the United States during the period. Drawing on this fascinating body of material, Sacred Places examines the vital role ...
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Tourism emerged as an important cultural activity in the United States in the 1820s as steamboats and canals allowed for greater mobility and an interest in scenery began to permeate the work of both serious and popular writers and artists. Literally thousands of images and descriptions of America's tourist attractions were produced for the numerous guidebooks and other publications devoted to travel in the United States during the period. Drawing on this fascinating body of material, Sacred Places examines the vital role tourism played in fulfilling the cultural needs of nineteenth-century Americans. Sears argues that tourist attractions such as Mammoth Cave, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Yosemite, and Yellowstone functioned as sacred places for a nation with a diversity of religious sects and no ancient religious or national shrines. For nineteenth-century Americans, whose vision was shaped by the aesthetics of the sublime and the Romantic view of nature as temple, these places fulfilled an urgent need for places to visit that transcended ordinary reality.
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Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. ix, 243 pages, b/w ills, notes, index. Pencil marginalia with some pencil underlining. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. Pencilling aside, the book is in Very Good condition. The book 'examines the vital role that tourism played in fulfilling the cultural needs of 19th century Americans. Most of the attractions discussed are still visited by millions of Americans. By illuminating their cultural meaning, the book prompts reflection on our own motivations and responses as tourists and reveals why tourism was and is such an important part of American life'.
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