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This work challenges dominant narratives of the concerns of nineteenth century literature to show how supposedly minor works of picturesque helped transform the American landscape, and create what we now recognize as the defining spaces of American life.

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Introduction 1: The Picturesque Travel Sketch: Reading History and American Exceptionalism on the Landscape 2: The City Sketch: The Urban Picturesque and Writing Middle-Class Identity on the Streets of Antebellum New York 3: Rus-Urban Imaginings: The American Park Movement and Representations of Social Space in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 4: The Country Book: The Picturesque Negotiation of Male Privacy and Intimacy in the Antebellum Suburbs 5: "The Great American Novel, New England Style": New England Village Novel & the Picturesque Epilogue

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9780192894557, 978-0192894557
      ISBN10: 0192894552

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work challenges dominant narratives of the concerns of nineteenth century literature to show how supposedly minor works of picturesque helped transform the American landscape, and create what we now recognize as the defining spaces of American life.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1: The Picturesque Travel Sketch: Reading History and American Exceptionalism on the Landscape 2: The City Sketch: The Urban Picturesque and Writing Middle-Class Identity on the Streets of Antebellum New York 3: Rus-Urban Imaginings: The American Park Movement and Representations of Social Space in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 4: The Country Book: The Picturesque Negotiation of Male Privacy and Intimacy in the Antebellum Suburbs 5: "The Great American Novel, New England Style": New England Village Novel & the Picturesque Epilogue

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