Arcadian waters and wanton seas : the iconology of waterscapes in nineteenth-century transatlantic c...
Arcadian waters and wanton seas : the iconology of waterscapes in nineteenth-century transatlantic c...
Arcadian waters and wanton seas : the iconology of waterscapes in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture / Arne Neset.
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New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
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N758.20973/1
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English
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xii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction. Typologies of Landscape -- Meanings of Landscape -- 1. Country Matters -- 2. Paysages Moralises -- 3. Claude and Salvator in America -- Rowing in Eden -- 4. River Arcadias -- 5. Sweet Water -- 6. Rowing in Eden -- 7. Hunters in Eden -- Sea Changes -- 8. Painted Ships and Arcadian Beach...
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Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2009.
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"Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas argues that nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central elements. Following th...
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Arcadian waters and wanton seas : the iconology of waterscapes in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture / Arne Neset.
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American university studies. Series XIX, General literature ; v. 36.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index.
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c2009.
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N758.20973/1
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74VM0ExjR7Wy
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1433102978 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781433102974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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758.2097309034
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991001785129702626
