Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 10) - Hardcover

McKinsey, Elizabeth R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521259010 ISBN 13: 9780521259019

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1985

Inhaltsangabe

In this fascinating study, Beth McKinsey has chronicled and examined the changing image of Niagara Falls from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. She analyses the evolving role of the Falls; from a natural, to a moral, to a technological and commercial basis.

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In this fascinating study, Beth McKinsey has chronicled the changing image of Niagara Falls, analysing the shifts in sensibility that produced different responses to the great cataract from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. She examines the evolving role of the Falls as the very meaning of the sublime moved away from its roots in eighteenth-century English aesthetics: from a natural, to a moral, to a technological basis. At the same time, the author describes the growing commercial trade.

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331p cloth with grey illustrated dustjacket, very nice condition, firm and clean

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0521259010
• ISBN 13: 9780521259019
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 347