The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
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The Spectacle of Nature explores the perception of the countryside in early 19th-century France. Nicholas Green argues that the experience of nature - from the consumption of prints and pictures to rural excursions and country retreats - was rooted in historically specific ways of seeing that took their cue from a distinctive metropolitan culture. At the heart of the argument lies a discussion of subjectivity and class: the way in which the process...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0719039096
ISBN13:9780719039096
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
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