American Victorians and virgin nature

American Victorians and virgin nature / edited by T.J. Jackson Lears ; essays by Richard White [and others].

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Isabella Stewart Gardner Interdisciplinary Symposium Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Other Authors:	Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947-
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Distributed by Antique Collectors Club, ©2002.
Series:	Fenway Court ; 29.
Subjects:	Landscapes in art > Congresses. Nature (Aesthetics) > Congresses. Art, American > Themes, motives > Congresses. Conference papers and proceedings.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Anne Hawley
Introduction / t. J. Jackson Lears
Transcendental landscapes / Richard White
Winslow Homer and the natural woman / Sarah Burns
Lowbrow/highbrow: Charles R. Knight, art work, and the spectacle of prehistoric life / Michele Bogart
Cities, excursions into nature, and late-century landscapes / Elizabeth Johns
How the canyon became grand / Stephen Pyne
Visual narrative and American myth from Thomas Cole to John Ford / Richard Slotkin.