Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century

by John F. Sears

Book Overview

Tourism emerged as an important cultural activity in the United States in the 1820s as steamboats and canals allowed for greater mobility and the nation's writers and artists focused their attention on American scenery. From the 1820s until well after the Civil War, American artists, like Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, depicted American tourist attractions in their work, and often made their reputations on those paintings. Writers like Irving, Cooper,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053508
• ISBN13: 9780195053500
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"