Volume I The American landscape: first impressions; the puritan image; the 18th-century - travellers in America, the poetic response, the landscape as territory; the landscape as cultural icon; European observations; cultural perspectives. Volume II The American image: landscape as symbol and myth in the 19th-century: Eastern lands and light - transcendentalism; picturesque America; America and the landscape painter; a southern voice; the novelist and the landscape - two views. Volume III The expanding continent - landscape, expeditions and emigrants - a chronological review of the 19th-century; the 20th century - a dissenting voice.
Graham Clarke is Reader in Literary and Image Studies in the English and American Studies Department at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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