American writers and the picturesque tour : the search for national identity, 1790-1860 / Beth L. Lueck.

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly: The Picturesque Traveler as Sleepwalker -- 3. "Banqueting on the picturesque": James Kirke Paulding in the 1820s and 3̀0s -- 4. The Search for Manliness: Irving and Parkman in the West -- 5. Hawthorne's Ironic Traveler -- 6. Poe's "Picturesque-Hunters" -- 7. Excursions in New England: Thoreau as Picturesque Tourist -- 8. Conclusion.

• Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller. --Publisher description. 

Ämnesord

Travelers' writings, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American prose literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Travelers  -- United States -- 19th century. (LCSH)

National characteristics, American, in literature.  (LCSH)

Travel writing  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Picturesque, The, in literature.  (LCSH)

Group identity in literature.  (LCSH)

Landscapes in literature.  (LCSH)

Travelers in literature.  (LCSH)

Travel in literature.  (LCSH)

American prose literature.  (fast)

Group identity in literature.  (fast)

Landscapes in literature.  (fast)

National characteristics, American, in literature.  (fast)

Picturesque, The, in literature.  (fast)

Travel in literature.  (fast)

Travel writing.  (fast)

Travelers.  (fast)

Travelers in literature.  (fast)

Travelers' writings, American.  (fast)

Das Malerische.  (gnd)

Landschaft (Motiv)  (gnd)

Literatur.  (gnd)

Nationalbewusstsein.  (gnd)

Reiseliteratur.  (gnd)

Récits de voyages américains  -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. (ram)

Literatur.  (swd)

Landschaft (Motiv)  (swd)

Geschichte 1790-1860.  (swd)

Reiseliteratur.  (swd)

Nationalbewusstsein.  (swd)

Das Malerische.  (swd)

United States.  (fast)

USA.  (gnd)

USA.  (swd)

1800-1899  (fast)

Geschichte 1790-1860. 

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Travelers` writings, American -- History and criticism

American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Americans -- Travel -- United States -- History -- 19th century

National characteristics, American, in literature

Picturesque, The, in literature

Group identity in literature

Landscape in literature

Travelers in literature

Travel in literature

Klassifikation

PS366.T73 (LCC)

810.9/355 (DDC)

HT 1850 (rvk)