Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism

by Robert E. Abrams

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In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period. Sense of place, Abrams proposes, is culturally constructed. It is perceived through the lens of maps, ideas of nature, styles of painting, and other cultural frameworks that can contradict one another...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052111988X

ISBN13:9780521119887

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:180 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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