Appalachian pastoral : mountain excursions, aesthetic visions, and the antebellum travel narrative / Michael S. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Michael S. (Professor of English), author.

Series:

18th century moments.

Liverpool scholarship online.

18th century moments

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American.

Landscapes in literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--English influences.

Appalachian Region--In literature.

Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Appalachian Pastoral' rethinks how 19th-century travel narratives into Appalachia deliberately incorporate British landscape aesthetics as a mediating literary device with a somewhat inconceivable real-world environment and terrain. The book uses modern-day approaches to the environment (ecocriticism) to provide a new vocabulary for understanding these little-known, antebellum, first-person works.

Contents:

"The space around me appeared to be a wilderness of mountains" : encountering place in antebellum travel narratives from the interior Mountain East

New settings, new contexts for pan and faunus : "The country of herdsmen and shepherds"

Appalachia as readable "picturesque touring" : David Hunter Strother, Henry Colton, and imagined sites of nostalgia

"The beautiful of the awe and sublime" : Appalachia's new testing ground for Burke's conceit

Towards a rural ideal : Appalachian travel writing and the final design within landscape aesthetics.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80085-350-5

1-63804-019-2

OCLC:

1411754204