This work challenges dominant narratives of the concerns of nineteenth century literature to show how supposedly minor works of picturesque helped transform the American landscape, and create what we now recognize as the defining spaces of American life.
This work challenges dominant narratives of the concerns of nineteenth century literature to show how supposedly minor works of picturesque helped transform the American landscape, and create what we now recognize as the defining spaces of American life.
John Evelev is Professor of English at the University of Missouri.
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* Introduction * 1: The Picturesque Travel Sketch: Reading History and American Exceptionalism on the Landscape * 2: The City Sketch: The Urban Picturesque and Writing Middle-Class Identity on the Streets of Antebellum New York * 3: Rus-Urban Imaginings: The American Park Movement and Representations of Social Space in the Mid-Nineteenth Century * 4: The Country Book: The Picturesque Negotiation of Male Privacy and Intimacy in the Antebellum Suburbs * 5: "The Great American Novel, New England Style": New England Village Novel and the Picturesque * Epilogue
* Introduction * 1: The Picturesque Travel Sketch: Reading History and American Exceptionalism on the Landscape * 2: The City Sketch: The Urban Picturesque and Writing Middle-Class Identity on the Streets of Antebellum New York * 3: Rus-Urban Imaginings: The American Park Movement and Representations of Social Space in the Mid-Nineteenth Century * 4: The Country Book: The Picturesque Negotiation of Male Privacy and Intimacy in the Antebellum Suburbs * 5: "The Great American Novel, New England Style": New England Village Novel and the Picturesque * Epilogue
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