[New-Poetry] Views of American Landscapes

[Anny Ballardini]

> From: Mick Gidley [mailto:G.M.Gidley at leeds.ac.uk] 
> Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2007 19:46

EAAS Book Back in Print by Popular Demand

Views of American Landscapes, ed. Mick Gidley & Robert Lawson Peebles, first
published in 1989, has recently been reprinted as a paperback by Cambridge
University Press

Views of American Landscapes, a structured collection of essays (most of
which were developed from papers given at an EAAS workshop in Budapest) has
227 pages and 32 illustrations.
Price: £23.99 or $45.00.  ISBN: 0-521-03393-4.  Order from www.cambridge.org

Contents: 
Leo Marx, 'Foreword'
1. Mick Gidley & Robert Lawson-Peebles, 'Introduction' 
PROSPECTS
2. Clive Bush, '"Guilded Backgrounds": Reflections on the Perception of
Space and Landscape in America'
3. Olaf Hansen, 'The Impermanent Sublime: Nature, Photography and the
Petrarchan Tradition'
4. Stephen Fender, 'American Landscape and the Figure of Anticipation'
5. Philip Stokes, 'Trails of Topographic Notions: Expeditionary
Photography in the American West'
ANGLO-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
6. Robert Clark, 'The Absent Landscape of America's Eighteenth Century'
7. Christopher Mulvey, 'Ecriture and Landscape: British Writing on
Post-Revolutionary America'
8. Robert Lawson-Peebles, 'Dickens Goes West'
AMERICAN ILLUSTRATIONS
9. Francesca Orestano, 'The Old World and the New in the National
Landscapes of John Neal'
10. Graham Clarke, 'Landscape Painting and the Domestic Typology of
Post-Revolutionary America'
11. Bernard Mergen, 'Winter Landscape in the Early Republic: Survival
and Sentimentality'
12. Allen J. Koppenhaver, 'The Dark View of Things: The Isolated Figure
in the American Landscapes of Cole and Bryant'
13. Mick Gidley, 'The Figure of the Indian in Photographic Landscapes' 
Index

Contributors: 
(Details of affiliation, etc., at the time of original publication may be
found in the book's 'Notes on Contributors'.)
Clive Bush is Emeritus Professor of English & American Literature at Kings
College London; Robert Clark is Reader in English & American Literature at
the University of East Anglia; Graham Clarke, recently deceased, was
Emeritus Professor of Photography and Visual Arts at the University of Kent.
Stephen Fender is Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University
of Sussex; Mick Gidley is Emeritus Professor of American Literature &
Culture at the University of Leeds; Olaf Hansen is Professor of American
Studies at the University of Frankfurt; Allen J. Koppenhaver, now deceased,
was Professor of English & American Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio;
Robert Lawson-Peebles is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of
Exeter; Leo Marx is Emeritus William R. Kenan Jr Professor of American
Cultural History in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bernard Mergen is Emeritus Professor
of American Civilization at George Washington University; Christopher Mulvey
is Emeritus Professor of English & American Studies at Winchester
University; Francesca Orestano is Professor of English at the University of
Milan; Philip Stokes, now deceased, was until his retirement in 1997, Senior
Lecturer in Photography at Nottingham Trent University.

Review comments: 
'In its acceptance of the essential interrelatedness of image and text, and
in its openness to speculation as a complement to close analysis, this is an
invaluable addition to the literature of American landscape studies' -Choice

'as Leo Marx notes in his instructive foreword, these [essays] deal
sequentially with the equivocal patrimony of Old World aesthetics, the
textual and visual evidence of Anglo-American relations, and representations
of the vernacular style grounded in the particulars of the American
experience.  They uncover a common nexus of problems in the endeavours to
read the landscape, whether in literary or visual terms' - Modern Language
Review

'the sheer breadth and diversity of subject matter presents a constant
challenge, which helps to make this such a readable book' - Landscape
Research 

'At its best the book genuinely puts theory to work through the analysis of
particulars, aided not a little by a generous number of plates and
illustrations - albeit in black and white only' -Notes and Queries

'Overall, Views of American Landscapes is a welcome addition to the growing
literature of landscape history'-Journal of American History

'It is a pity that the title of this book does not specify the dates of
coverage - roughly 1776 to 1900 - not so much for the sake of accuracy but
because to do so would prompt the hope that a twentieth-century sequel is
forthcoming' -Journal of American Studies   

Sequel:
Modern American Landscapes (1995), also edited by Mick Gidley and Robert
Lawson-Peebles, is still available in the EAAS-sponsored European
Contributions to American Studies Series published by VU University Press,
Amsterdam.

Modern American Landscapes, which concentrates on the twentieth century, has
291 pages and 16 illustrations. Contributors: Tim Armstrong, Neil
Badmington, William Boelhower, Christine Bold, Maria Diedrich, Mick Gidley,
Robert Lawson-Peebles, David E. Nye, Robert W. Rydell, William Sharpe,
Simone Vauthier.
 
Price: 45.92 Euros.  ISBN: 90-5383-208-4.  Order from www.vuboekhandel.nl



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