This critical and cultural overview of American landscape and travel literature draws on sources from the 17th through 19th centuries, and includes diaries and journals, travelogues, guide-books, essays, lectures and poems. The material includes writings on the Puritan response, pre-colonial eighteenth century accounts, the immediate post-colonial period, expeditions, surveys, the picturesque and the sublime, wilderness literature, the West, the South, New England, Transcendentalism, California, the Hudson River School, ...
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This critical and cultural overview of American landscape and travel literature draws on sources from the 17th through 19th centuries, and includes diaries and journals, travelogues, guide-books, essays, lectures and poems. The material includes writings on the Puritan response, pre-colonial eighteenth century accounts, the immediate post-colonial period, expeditions, surveys, the picturesque and the sublime, wilderness literature, the West, the South, New England, Transcendentalism, California, the Hudson River School, Luminism, the Rocky Mountains and Plains. Also includes maps.
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Add this copy of The American Landscape: Literary Sources and Documents to cart. $120.00, very good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Helm Information Ltd.
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Book. Octavo, three volumes. In Very Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's green cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spines. Tan cardboard slipcase with paper label to the head edge and slight shelf wear exteriorly. Boards have minimal wear. Text blocks have all edges colored green. Frontispiece to each volume. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. CONTENTS: Vol. One, vi, xiii, 573 pages--Vol. Two "The American Image: Landscape as Symbol and Myth in the Nineteenth Century" iv, vii, 472 pages--Vol. Three "The Expanding Continent: Landscape, Expeditions and Emigrants: Chronological Review of the Nineteenth Century" iv, vi, 729 pages Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1379824. FP New Rockville Stock.
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