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Informationen zum Autor David Schuyler Klappentext David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940?80; Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815?52; and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and is an editor of The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers. Zusammenfassung In Sanctified Landscape, David Schuyler recounts the story of America's idealization of the Hudson Valley in art and literature during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 The Tourists' River: Experiencing the Hudson Valley 2 The Artist's River: Thomas Cole 3 The Writers' River: Washington Irving and N. P. Willis 4 The River in a Garden: A. J. Downing 5 Change and the Search for Continuity at Midcentury 6 Elegy for the Hudson River School: Jervis McEntee 7 The Naturalist's River: John Burroughs 8 A River in Time: Preserving Landscape, Celebrating History Conclusion
