Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism

by Robert E. Abrams

Book Overview

In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period. Sense of place, Abrams proposes, is culturally constructed. It is perceived through the lens of maps, ideas of nature, styles of painting, and other cultural frameworks that can contradict one another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052111988X
• ISBN13: 9780521119887
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"