The American Landscapes: Literary Sources & Documents - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1873403054 ISBN 13 : 9781873403051

Editeur : Helm Information Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Graham Clarke is Reader in Literary and Image Studies in the English and American Studies Department at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Helm Information Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1873403054
• ISBN 13: 9781873403051
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1808
• Éditeur: Clarke Graham
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible