The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France

By Nicholas Green

The Spectacle of Nature explores the perception of the countryside in early 19th-century France. Nicholas Green argues that the experience of nature - from the consumption of prints and pictures to rural excursions and country retreats - was rooted in historically specific ways of seeing that took their cue from a distinctive metropolitan culture. At the heart of the argument lies a discussion of subjectivity and class: the way in which the process of looking at the countryside reinforced the identity of the metropolitan bourgeoisie - and especially men.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719039096
• ISBN13: 9780719039096
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"