Forest (eBook)

A Fable of America in the 1830s

Alexander Nemerov (Autor)

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2023
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24427-3 (ISBN)

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A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States';One of the richest books ever to come my way.'Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Shipping News';This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.'Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with Amber EyesSet amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characterssuch as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turnerare well known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs.The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths or go their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For Alexander Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions of the people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America, illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs, The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 59 color + 7 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Alexander Jackson Davis • Alexander Nemerov • antiquarian • arsenic • Ashbel Smith • Benjamin Henry Latrobe • Book • burial • Cahokia • Caroline Lee Hentz • Chestnut • Church bell • Claude Lorrain • Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone) • Daguerreotype • delicacy • D. H. Lawrence • dickcissel • Easel • Edgar Allan Poe • engraving • Facsimile • Fanny Kemble • Fine Art • Fireplace • forest floor • Francis Parkman • Germination • Great Dismal Swamp • handkerchief • Harriet Tubman • Helen Jewett • Hiram Powers • Hudson River • Hyde Hall • Illustration • Indian Removal • Jacques Maritain • James Fenimore Cooper • Jane McCrea • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • John Constable • John James Audubon • John Quidor • John Vanderlyn • Joslyn Art Museum • Karl Bodmer • Lam Qua • laura bridgman • Leather • Locust tree • Lord Byron • Louis Daguerre • magnifying glass • meal • Monks Mound • Nathaniel Hawthorne • National Gallery of Art • nat turner • necromancy • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art • Ojibwe • Oxford University Press • Philip Hone • photography • Phrenology • Piasa • Poetry • Pym (novel) • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Robert Montgomery Bird • Salt well • Samuel Morse • Sequoyah • Slavery • Smithsonian Institution • Statue • sulky • The Clocks • The Confessions of Nat Turner • The Damnation of Theron Ware • The Decameron • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket • Thomas Sully • Thorvaldsen Museum • Thought • Tontine • tracery • Trail Trees • V. • Vegetation • Wallpaper • Wildness • William Maclure • William Sidney Mount • William Styron • wreath • Writing • Yale University Art Gallery • Young Goodman Brown
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24427-8 / 0691244278
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24427-3 / 9780691244273