This book investigates the adaptation and transformation of the European peripatetic tradition in nineteenth-century America; in particular Henry David Thoreau's literary walks and their visual counterparts in American landscape painting. Although Thoreau's perambulations in New World nature have been stated in scholarship, no study has offered a comparative analysis, nor has the philosophic-contemplative aspect of his 'art of Walking" been sufficiently studied. The present study puts his walking pattern into a transatlantic as well as interdisciplinary context and illuminates the uniquely American aesthetic-philosophic considerations underlying the genre of the walk in American nineteenth-century literature and painting.
This book investigates the adaptation and transformation of the European peripatetic tradition in nineteenth-century America; in particular Henry David Thoreau's literary walks and their visual counterparts in American landscape painting. Although Thoreau's perambulations in New World nature have been stated in scholarship, no study has offered a comparative analysis, nor has the philosophic-contemplative aspect of his 'art of Walking" been sufficiently studied. The present study puts his walking pattern into a transatlantic as well as interdisciplinary context and illuminates the uniquely American aesthetic-philosophic considerations underlying the genre of the walk in American nineteenth-century literature and painting.
Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting
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Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783825351960 |
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| Publisher: | Universitatsverlag Winter |
| Publication date: | 01/06/2006 |
| Series: | American Studies - A Monograph Series , #134 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.28(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) |