Narrating the landscape print culture and American expansion in the nineteenth century /
"The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in...
| Main Author: | Johnston, Matt, 1970- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
242 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Series: |
Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ;
v. 24. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Landscape and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
- Reading the Past outside the Window : Competing Visions of History in Paintings and Railroad Guidebooks
- The Anatomy of Greed : Newport Tourist Literature and the Luminist Works of William Trost Richards and John Frederick Kensett
- 'Walking Statues' : Narrative and Landscape in Early American Ethnology
- The Figuration of Time in the Geological Surveys of the West.