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Book Synopsis Creating Picturesque America by : Sue Rainey
Download or read book Creating Picturesque America written by Sue Rainey and published by Vanderbilt University Press (TN). This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Picturesque America was a conspicuous presence in the popular culture of the United States in the post-Civil War years. First published as a magazine series in Appletons' Journal, then as a subscription book, in parts, from 1872 to 1874 it reached a huge audience. Its voluminous text and over 900 pictures represented the first comprehensive celebration of the entire continental nation. By testifying to the variety, uniqueness and potential wealth of the American landscape and the advanced civilization of its cities, Picturesque America laid the foundation for a resurgence of nationalism rooted in the homeland itself, rather than in institutions of democracy as would have been the case earlier in the century." "This study is the first to analyze in detail the images and messages it conveyed and why and how it was produced, paying special attention to the misconceptions surrounding William Cullen Bryant's role as "editor," the contributions of particular illustrators of the day, and the book's production history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : William C. Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William C. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : William C. Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William C. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : William Cullen Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William Cullen Bryant and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1974 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : William Cullen Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874 by : John Evelev
Download or read book Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874 written by John Evelev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed minor or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.
Book Synopsis Picturesque America; Or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains ... by : William Cullen Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America; Or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains ... written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picturesque America written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Creating a World on Paper by : Sue Rainey
Download or read book Creating a World on Paper written by Sue Rainey and published by Studies in Print Culture and t. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents Harry Fenn's career from the 1860s until his death in 1911.
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : William Cullen Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : Oliver Bell Bunce
Download or read book Picturesque America written by Oliver Bell Bunce and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Picturesque America by : William Cullen Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delineation by pen and pencilof the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests water-falls, shores, caqons, walleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country.
Book Synopsis Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks by : Richard A. Grusin
Download or read book Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks written by Richard A. Grusin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. The creation of America's national parks is usually seen as an uncomplicated act of environmental preservation. Grusin argues, instead, that parks must be understood as complex cultural technologies for the reproduction of nature as landscape art. He explores the origins of America's three major parks - Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon--in relation to other forms of landscape representation including photography, mapping, travel writing and fiction.
Book Synopsis PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN, by : WILLIAM CULLEN. BRYANT
Download or read book PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN, written by WILLIAM CULLEN. BRYANT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Glimpses of America by : James W. Buel
Download or read book Glimpses of America written by James W. Buel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis Souvenirs of the Old South by : Rebecca C. McIntyre
Download or read book Souvenirs of the Old South written by Rebecca C. McIntyre and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in a clear, accessible, and lively style, Souvenirs of the Old South will be the foundational work for subsequent scholars and readers interested in tourism in the New South."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory "This study of southern images offers readers a glimpse of how history, culture, race, and class came together in the tourist imagination. If the South emerged from the Civil War a distinctive place, Rebecca McIntyre would remind us that’s because distinctiveness sells."--Richard Starnes, author of Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans. Rebecca McIntyre focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South’s modern identity, and she reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South "southern" as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. She also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis How the Post Office Created America by : Winifred Gallagher
Download or read book How the Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
