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Walking in the Wilderness
Michaela Keck
其他書名
The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-century American Literature and Painting
出版Winter, 2006
主題Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN38253519639783825351960
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=74caAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.