Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820 1909 - Hardcover
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Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820 1909
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...
David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940-1980; Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852; and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and is...
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