American Victorians and virgin nature
By: edited by T.J. Jackson Lears ; essays by Richard White ... [et al.].
Contributors: Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947-.; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.; Isabella Stewart Gardner Interdisciplinary Symposium (8th : 1999 : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Series: Fenway Court -- v. 29; Fenway Court -- v. 29; Fenway Court -- 29.
Publisher: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Distributed by Antique Collectors Club
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Landscape in art -- Congresses.; Nature (Aesthetics) -- Congresses.; Art, American -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This volume draws on cultural geography, museology, gender studies, and art history to explore nineteenth-century attitudes towards the American landscape in the broadest sense. The subjects range from the Transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, and Winslow Homer's illustrations of contemporary women, to dioramas of prehistoric life in the American Museum of Natural History. The "invention" of the Grand Canyon as a tourist destination and even the films of John Ford are used to illustrate the Victorian era's obsessions with nature. These six essays were originally presented at a symposium organized by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "The essays in this publication were originally presented in 1999 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as 'American Victorians and virgin nature', the Museum's eighth annual interdisciplinary symposium."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-114) and index.
Table of contents: title: Anne Hawley; title: Anne Hawley -- T. J. Jackson Lears; title: Anne Hawley -- T. J. Jackson Lears -- Richard White; title: Anne Hawley -- T. J. Jackson Lears -- Richard White -- Sarah Burns; title: Anne Hawley -- T. J. Jackson Lears -- Richard White -- Sarah Burns -- Michele Bogart; title: Anne Hawley -- T. J. Jackson Lears -- Richard White -- Sarah Burns -- Michele Bogart -- Elizabeth Johns; title: Anne Hawley -- T. J. Jackson Lears -- Richard White -- Sarah Burns -- Michele Bogart -- Elizabeth Johns -- Stephen Pyne; title: Anne Hawley-- T. J. Jackson Lears-- Richard White-- Sarah Burns-- Michele Bogart-- Elizabeth Johns-- Stephen Pyne-- Richard Slotkin.