Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820 1909

by David Schuyler

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The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801450802

ISBN13:9780801450808

Release Date:April 2012

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:4.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.7" x 10.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820 1909

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