Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Irving's Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist's Estate; 2. The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist's Gaze; 3. Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s; 4. Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries; 5. National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican; Subject in Hawthorne and Stowe; Conclusion: Gender and Genre; Notes; Bibliography.