1st Edition
American Writers and the Picturesque Tour The Search for National Identity, 1790-1860
By Beth L. Lueck
Copyright 1997
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explores a beloved genre 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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly: The Picturesque Traveler as Sleepwalker; Chapter 3 “Banqueting on the Picturesque”: James Kirke Paulding in the 1820s and ’30s; Chapter 4 The Search for Manliness: Irving and Parkman in the West; Chapter 5 Hawthorne’s Ironic Traveler; Chapter 6 Poe’s “Picturesque-Hunters”; Chapter 7 Excursions in New England: Thoreau as Picturesque Tourist; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
Biography
Beth L. Lueck
