American Writers and the Picturesque Tour: The Search for National Identity, 1790-1860

ISBN-13: 9780815322856 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 226 str.

Beth L. Lueck; Benjamin F. Fisher

Opis

A critical survey of the picturesque tour in national literature from Charles Brockden Brown to writers of the American Renaissance, detailing how American writers' attitudes toward this European aesthetic shaped their creation of an American literary nationalism. Contains chapters on Brown's Edgar

Spis treści

Introduction * Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly: The Picturesque Traveler as Sleepwalker * Banqueting on the Picturesque: James Kirke Paulding in the 1820s and '30s * The Search for Manliness: Irving and Parkman in the West * Hawthorne's Ironic Traveler * Poe's Picturesque-Hunters * Excursions in New England: Thoreau as Picturesque Tourist * Conclusion

O autorze

Beth L. Lueck