A Wilder Image Bright

Author : Kevin Sharp
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wilder Image Bright written by Kevin Sharp and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hudson River School is really the first coherent school of American art and it helped shape the mythos of the American landscape. The artists of the School, working from 1825 to 1875, infused the American landscape with the dreams and ambitions of a young nation poised for greatness. Beginning with the works of Thomas Cole, acknowledged founder and key figure in the establishment of the School, landscape art became the prevalent genre of nineteenth-century painting. Cole, whose dramatic and colorful landscapes are among the most impressive of the group, may be said to have been its leader during the its most active years. The work of over 20 artists is included here, with paintings by Henry Inman, Jasper Cropsey, Frederic E. Church, George Inness, Sanford Gifford, Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, William Stanley Haseltine, and Thomas Moran."

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478289
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Cullen Bryant written by Gilbert H. Muller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.

Author : Tony Tanner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521311557
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men written by Tony Tanner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ from European; what are the peculiar problems faced by the American artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as Henry Adams and Mark Twain lament the vanishing of an earlier America, or when Adams and Henry James review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when W. D. Howells and Stephen Crane seek to define their themes in a specifically American setting. The second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, John DeLillo, and William Gass.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Regan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191540595
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sonnet written by Stephen Regan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland, and America. It shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton. The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have given it a special place in literary history and tradition.

Author : Robert Lawson-Peebles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870387
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Literature Before 1880 written by Robert Lawson-Peebles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.

Author : Evan Robert Neely
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040025803
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 written by Evan Robert Neely and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent. Chapters analyze the ways in which “Nature” became a discursive site where theories of race and belonging, adaptation and environment, and the uses of literary and pictorial representation were being renegotiated, forming the basis for an ideal of the human and the nonhuman world that is still with us. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving the fields of visual culture, political economy, histories of racial identity, and ecocritical studies, the book examines the work of seminal figures in a variety of literary and artistic disciplines and puts the visual culture of the United States at the center of intellectual trends that have enormous implications for contemporary cultural practice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, American studies, environmental studies/ecocriticism, critical race theory, and semiotics.

Author : Cheryll May
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857475
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Seamless Web written by Cheryll May and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, American art scholars have increasingly focused on the importance of cross-cultural exchanges during the nineteenth century. As essayist François Brunet puts it, mid-nineteenth century landscapes were “transnational . . . permeated by complex transactions where ‘American’ originality produced itself not only in imitation of or reaction against ‘European’ influences, . . . but as critical mirroring and incorporating of ‘European’ images.” Articles in this collection make clear that the “conversation of cultures” went both ways, with American artworks and culture also affecting European artistic and literary practice. Essays explore the transnational origin of many types of American artworks, from stained glass windows, which usually copied their European originals with great exactitude, to paintings and sculptures using distinctly American motifs, such as the Puritan and the cowboy, to distinguish American art students from their Parisian masters. It also examines American cultural icons, particularly the American Indian, appropriated by European writers, artists, and philosophers to embody primeval wisdom. A distinguished international group of scholars, including Brunet, Robert Rydell, and Peter Gibian, offer valuable perspectives on the ever-broadening field of transnational cultural studies.

Author : Frank Jewett Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in America written by Frank Jewett Mather and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: