This book investigates the adaptation and transformation of the European peripatetic tradition in nineteenth-century America; in particular Henry David Thoreau’s literary walks and their visual counterparts in American landscape painting. Although Thoreau’s perambulations in New World nature have been stated in scholarship, no study has offered a comparative analysis, nor has the philosophic-contemplative aspect of his 'art of Walking” been sufficiently studied. The present study puts his walking pattern into a transatlantic as well as interdisciplinary context and illuminates the uniquely American aesthetic-philosophic considerations underlying the genre of the walk in American nineteenth-century literature and painting.This book investigates the adaptation and transformation of the European peripatetic tradition in nineteenth-century America; in particular Henry David Thoreau's literary walks and their visual counterparts in American landscape painting. Although Thoreau's perambulations in New World nature have been stated in scholarship, no study has offered a comparative analysis, nor has the philosophic-contemplative aspect of his 'art of Walking" been sufficiently studied. The present study puts his walking pattern into a transatlantic as well as interdisciplinary context and illuminates the uniquely American aesthetic-philosophic considerations underlying the genre of the walk in American nineteenth-century literature and painting.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783825351960
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-8253-5196-0
- Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2006
- Sprache(n): Englisch,Deutsch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2006
- Serie: American Studies
- Produktform: Gebunden, GB
- Gewicht: 448 g
- Seiten: 304
- Format (B x H x T): 144 x 219 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt