A time to every purpose : the four seasons in American culture /
Kammen, Michael G.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-320) and index.
Seasonal cycles and sequences -- From antiquity to the eighteenth century in Europe -- The American reception and adaptation of the four seasons motif -- Nostalgia, nationalism, and the American seasons, 1854-1914 -- American transitions : the seasonal sense of place, time, and imagery -- Nature writers, reader response, and the ambivalence of urban America -- The four seasons and American popular culture : calendars and consumerism -- The four seasons in contemporary American art and poetry -- Science and the seasons, retrospection, and reprise.
Seasons
Popular culture
Art, American
American literature
Seasons in art.
Seasons in literature.
Seasons