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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Conron |
| ISBN: | 0271019204 9780271019208 |
| OCLC Number: | 40395855 |
| Description: | xxiii, 363 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | The picturesque aesthetic: an introduction -- Eclecticism and the multiplication of feelings in forms -- Reading forms: symbolism in picturesque effect -- Reading the human body: the dramatization of picturesque effect -- An art of the scene -- The body as narrative in American genre painting -- Space as a verb: frame and narrator in landscapes and interiors -- Comparing the picturesque arts: architecture and landscape architecture as painting -- Comparing the picturesque arts: literature as painting -- The gendered American dream house -- The picturesque city -- Walden as picturesque narrative. |
| Responsibility: | John Conron. |
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