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Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature - Topographies of Skepticism (Paperback)
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Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature - Topographies of Skepticism (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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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 or change
dramatically over time. Abrams contends that mid-century American
writers ranging from Henry D. Thoreau to Margaret Fuller are
especially sensitive to instability of sense of place across the
span of American history, and that they are ultimately haunted by
an underlying placelessness. Many books have explored the variety
of aesthetic conventions and ideas that have influenced the
American imagination of landscape, but this study introduces the
idea of placeless into the discussion, and suggests that it has
far-reaching consequences.
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