American writers and the picturesque tour
the search for national identity, 1790-1860
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Publication
1997 - Garland Pub., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
52,750 words, Guess
Page Count
211 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL673830M
- ISBN-100815322852
- OCLC Control Number889813058
- OCLC Control Number36824892
- Library of Congress Control Number97019947
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- Goodreads3779256
- LibraryThing1380579
Classifications
- DDC810.9/355
- LCCPS366.T73 L84 1997
Description
Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller. --Publisher description.
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- Garland reference library of the humanities ;
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