Title: American writers and the picturesque tour
First published: 1997
Description: Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller. --Publisher description.
Subjects: History and criticism, History, Travelers in literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, American prose literature, Landscape in literature, Travelers' writings, American, Group identity in literature, Travelers, Travel writing, Picturesque, The, in literature, Travel in literature, American literature, history and criticism, 1783-1850, National characteristics in literature, Nationalism in literature, Landscapes in literature, Écrits de voyageurs américains, Histoire et critique, Prose américaine, Voyageurs, Voyage, Art d'écrire, Histoire, Pittoresque dans la littérature, Identité collective dans la littérature, Paysages dans la littérature, Voyageurs dans la littérature, Voyage dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literatur, Landschaft, Reiseliteratur, Nationalbewusstsein, Das Malerische, Récits de voyages américains, Geschichte 1790-1860, Americans, Travel
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS366.T73 L84 1997