Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America''s National Parks

Informationen zum Autor Richard Grusin is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Higher Criticism and the Institutional Authority of the Bible (1991) and co-author (with Jay David Bolter) of Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999). Zusammenfassung Grusin investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. He explores the origins of America's three major parks - Yosemite! Yellowstone and Grand Canyon - in relation to other forms of landscape representation in the late nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction - reproducing nature: the technology of national parks; 1. Recreating Yosemite: landscape, nationalism, and the nature of aesthetic agency; 2. Representing Yellowstone: art, science, and fidelity to nature; 3. Recognizing the Grand Canyon: naming, sublimity, and the limits of mediation; Conclusion - remediating nature: national parks as mediated public space; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Crusin, Richard Grusin, Richard A. Grusin
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2004
• EAN: 9780521826495
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82649-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies