Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The World Turned Upside Down

Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The World Turned Upside Down

by Robert Lawson-Peebles
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The World Turned Upside Down

Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The World Turned Upside Down

by Robert Lawson-Peebles

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521070805
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/28/2008
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #28
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue; 1. The triumph of Redcoatism; 2. A Republic of dreams; 3. Dreary wastes and awful solitude; 4. The natural limit of a republic; 5. Thomas Jefferson and the spacious field of imagination; 6. The Lewis and Clark Expedition; 7. The excursive imagination of Charles Brockden Brown; Epilogue.
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