American iconology : new approaches to nineteenth-century art and literature / edited by David C. Mi...
American iconology : new approaches to nineteenth-century art and literature / edited by David C. Mi...
American iconology : new approaches to nineteenth-century art and literature / edited by David C. Miller.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993.
Call Numbers
N700.9730903/1A , N700.9730903/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
vi, 344 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents
Introduction / David C. Miller -- 1. Peale's Mammoth /Laura Rigal -- 2. The Boston Elite's Resistance to Washington Allston's Elijah in the Desert / David Bjelajac -- 3. On the Cultural Construction of Landscape Experience: Contact to 1830 / Kenneth John Myers -- 4. Making a Picture of the View from...
11. Mary Cassatt and the Maternal Body / Harriet Scott Chessman -- 12. A Pragmatic Mode of Seeing: James, Howells, and the Politics of Vision / Emily Fourmy Cutrer -- Afterword / David C. Miller.
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c1993.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This overview of the "sister arts" of the nineteenth century by younger scholars in art history, literature, and American studies presents a startling array of perspectives on the fundamental role played by images in culture and society. Drawing on the latest thinking about vision and visuality as well as on recent developments in literary theory a...
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American iconology : new approaches to nineteenth-century art and literature / edited by David C. Miller.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Date Copyright
c1993.
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Call Numbers
N700.9730903/1A , N700.9730903/1
Record Identifier
74VK6Nl0ZAzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6Nl0ZAzX
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ISBN
0300065140 :
9780300054781 (cloth)
0300054785 (cloth)
9780300054798 (paper)
0300054793 (paper)
9780300065145 :
DDC
700.97309034
MMS ID
991020971159702626
