| Description |
1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Art and Politics Series |
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Routledge Research in Art and Politics Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Three Stories -- The Battle of Storm King Mountain -- A Tour of the Meadowlands in Search of the Antipicturesque -- All the Time We've Been Traveling -- Notes -- Introduction -- The Image of Nature -- The Publishing Industry and the Semiology of Landscape Representation -- The Logic of Landscape Representation -- Racialized Aesthetics -- The Rich Merchant and Capitalist -- Geography and Settler Sovereignty -- Ecology, Indexicality, and the Image of the Past -- Notes |
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1. William Cullen Bryant and the Semiology of Landscape Representation -- To Wander Alone in Woods and Solitudes? -- Strictly American -- The Fresh Virgin Soil Poured Forth Strange Flowers -- The Landscape Element in American Poetry -- It Is Difficult to Find Any but Landscape Subjects in His Work -- A Want of Associations -- I Look Again -- To Illustrate the History and Scenery of Our Country -- A Most Graphic Emblem of Our Civilization -- Progress -- Notes -- 2. Cartography, Composition, and the Place of the Painter -- Representation -- A Medium for the Discovery of Geography |
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A Monastery to Lodge in So High -- The Final Goal of Humanity -- The Columbus of the Woods -- Notes -- 3. Exploration, Environment, and Economy -- One: The American Landscape Painter Marches at Nature with Immense Civilization to Back Him -- Two: Distinct Zoological Provinces -- Essay Three: The Wares the Age Has Need Of -- Four: Labor, Rights, and Representation -- Notes -- 4. Racial Geography: North of Robert Duncanson's Canvas -- A View of Cincinnati, Ohio, from Covington, Kentucky -- His Whole Nature Has Been Modified Thereby -- American"" Scenery -- Daguerreotype Minuteness |
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The Land of the Lotus Eaters -- Notes -- 5. The Picturesque Garden and the Unhandselled Globe: Walden and the Economy of Nature -- The First Person -- Enjoy the Land, But Do Not Own It -- Contact! Contact! Who Are We? Where Are We? -- Every Man Is the Builder of a Temple, Called His Body -- That Economy of Living Which Is Synonymous With Philosophy -- The Father Tongue -- The So-Called ""Economy of Nature -- Retaining the ""I -- Notes -- A Coda on Peirce and the Image of Nature -- Nature Will Be Reported -- Iconology, Sem(e)iotic, Symbolism -- Notes on the Index -- Ecology and the Image of Nature |
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Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Individual Publications -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825-1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040025857 |
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1040025854 |
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