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Transatlantic Romanticism : British and American art and literature, 1790-1860 / edited by Andrew Hemingway and Alan Wallach.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Romanticism in art.
- Romanticism--United States.
- Arts, British.
- Arts, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In thirteen chapters devoted to artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England and the United States.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Capitalism, Nationalism, and the Romantic Weltanschauung
- I. The City
- 1. "The pit of modern art": Practice and Ambition in the London Art World
- 2. The Urban Ecology of Art in Antebellum New York
- 3. Urban Convalescence in Lamb, Poe, and Baudelaire
- II. History
- 4. Sublime and Fall: Benjamin West and the Politics of the Sublime in Early Nineteenth-Century Marylebone
- 5. Benjamin West's Royal Chapel at Windsor: Who's in Charge, the Patron or the Painter?
- 6. The Politics of Style: Allston's and Martin's Belshazzars Compared
- 7. James Fenimore Cooper and American Artists in Europe: Art, Religion, Politics
- III. Landscape
- 8. John Martin, Thomas Cole, and Deep Time
- 9. "Gorgeous, but altogether false": Turner, Cole, and Transatlantic Ideas of Decline
- 10. Thomas Cole and Transatlantic Romanticism
- IV. Race
- 11. Picturing the Murder of Jane McCrea: A Critical Moment in Transatlantic Romanticism
- 12. The Romantic Indian Commodified: Text and Image in George Catlin's Letters and Notes (1841)
- 13. Romantic Racialism and the Antislavery Novels of Stowe, Hildreth, and Melville
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Color Plates
- About the Authors
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-350-6
- OCLC:
- 919384581
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