This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. It argues that the cultural identity of the United States, like its political identity, emerged from a quarrel with the Old World. Europeans believed that the Revolution had 'turned the world upside down'. American intellectuals tried to construct a republic which refuted European criticism. They failed, but in failing they created an attitude to the terrain which became a central theme in American culture. The book employs the methods of perceptual geography and close textual analysis to examine images of the terrain and to propose close links between imaginative literature and a wide range of non-literary writing.
| ISBN: | 9780521070805 |
| Publication date: | 28th August 2008 |
| Author: | Robert LawsonPeebles |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 |
This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. It argues that the cultural identity of the United States, like its political identity, emerged from a quarrel with the Old World. Europeans believed that the Revolution had 'turned the world upside down'. American intellectuals tried to construct a republic which refuted European criticism. They failed, but in failing they created an attitude to the terrain which became a central theme in American culture. The book employs the methods of perceptual geography and close textual analysis to examine images of the terrain and to propose close links between imaginative literature and a wide range of non-literary writing.
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America is available in Paperback, Hardback
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America was written by Robert LawsonPeebles and published by Cambridge University Press
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America has 400 pages
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