Narrating the landscape : print culture and American expansion in the nineteenth century

Narrating the landscape : print culture and American expansion in the nineteenth century / Matthew N. Johnston.

Author/creator	Johnston, Matt, 1970- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Description	242 pages ; 29 cm.
Subject(s)	Landscapes in art. Landscape prints, American--19th century. Art and society--United States --History --19th century. United States--In art. United States--In popular culture.

Series	The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; Volume 24 Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 24. ^A788788
Contents	Introduction : Landscape and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture -- Reading the Past outside the Window : Competing Visions of History in Paintings and Railroad Guidebooks -- The Anatomy of Greed : Newport Tourist Literature and the Luminist Works of William Trost Richards and John Frederick Kensett -- 'Walking Statues' : Narrative and Landscape in Early American Ethnology -- The Figuration of Time in the Geological Surveys of the West.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
LCCN	2015037905
ISBN	9780806152233 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN	0806152230 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	NE954.2 .J65 2016	✔ Available	Place Hold