Narrating the Landscape, Volume 24: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century

by Matthew N. Johnston

The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period's landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age's defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806152230
• ISBN13: 9780806152233
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 11.1"