Arcadian America: the death and life of an environmental tradition
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| Physical Description: | XI, 484 S. |
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| adam_text | Titel: Arcadian America
Autor: Sachs, Aaron
Jahr: 2013
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Prologue. Waterfalls and Cemeteries i
one Common Shade: Cultivating a Place for Death 19
two The Middle Landscapes of New England Culture 62
three Sleepy Hollow: A Young Nation in Repose 96
four Stumps 137
five Three Men of the Middle Border (Part One): Twilight 210
six Three Men of the Middle Border (Part Two): American Homelessness 252
seven Atlantis: Arcadia and Armageddon 300
Epilogue. American Gothic; or, Death by Landscape 347
Acknowledgments 369
Notes 375
Illustration Credits 461
Index 465
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