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ISBN(s): 9780192647313, 9780192894557, 0192647318, 0192894552, 2020945982

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Year: 2021

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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed “minor” or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835–1874 1st Table of contents:

1. The Travel Sketch: Picturesque History and American Exceptionalism on the Landscape
American Picturesque Travel: Exceptionalism and History
Hawthorne on the Northern Tour: The Picturesque, Tourism and Time in “The Story Teller” Travel Sketches
Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843: The Picturesque and Native Americans in Western Travel
Thoreau and Picturesque Travel
Conclusion: Thoreau, the U.S. National Park System, History, and the Picturesque
2. The City Sketch: Walking the Picturesque City
The City Sketch: A Middle-Class Genre
3. The Park Movement: Picturesque Rus in Urb
Writing about Parks: Popular Refinement and The Social Meaning of the Park
Figuring the Park: Gender in the Public Urban Space
Dislodging Mose and Sam_ Public Parks and the Threat of Working-Class Masculinity
Conclusion: How Is a Novel Like a Park?
4. The Country Book: Masculinity, Domesticity, and the Rise of American Suburbs
Suburbia, the Picturesque, and American Manhood
The Country Book: Suburban Masculinity, Intimacy, and Privacy
Suburban Masculinity and Epistolarity
5. The New England Village Novel and Picturesque Reform
The New England Village and the Picturesque: An Invented Tradition
Kavanagh, A Tale: The Picturesque, Christian Sympathy, and Social Responsibility
Elsie Venner: Threatening Landscapes and the “Conservative Revolution” of the Picturesque
Norwood: The End of the New England Village Novel
Norwood, Gnaw-Wood, and the End of the New England Village Novel
Epilogue: In Search of the Picturesque

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