Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe: France
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791499669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Describing Italy as "the only region of the earth that I truly love," James Fenimore Cooper used the style of picturesque impressionism to convey his vision of Italy as the microcosm of an ordered and a beautiful world. In theory, the picturesque style of writing could produce verbal sketches that embodied a visual complexity similar to that of the great Baroque and Romantic landscape paintings. In practice, the hundreds of travel books written in the picturesque style in the early 1900s communicated rapturous enthusiasm with blurred or even false reports of actual scenes. Cooper, with his scrupulous fidelity to the seen world, intended to alter this practice decisively. The response of his imagination to the light, color, forms, artifacts and figures of the Italian landscape and to the manifold significances they embody follows in joyful appreciation of the land, culture and people of a country that induced in him the desire "to enjoy the passing moment." In Italy, Cooper refrained from commenting on politics, though he was an incorrigibly political man who responded to an insistent need to define the New World in defining the Old. The independence of his observations drew censure from American reviewers of the 1830s, who could not comprehend that his preference for the Bay for Naples over New York Harbor reflected his intellectual passion to rise above nationalistic feelings in matters of taste, morality and justice.
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperGleanings in Europe. England:
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Writings
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873955997
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Gleanings in Europe. Italy by an American [James Fenimore Cooper]
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Author: Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873953665
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832 revolt in Paris, when he hoped General Lafayette would be declared President of France and when all of Europe was the stage for the morality play of French politics. Published in 1836 after General Lafayette's death, the book is, in part, an apologia for Lafayette, Cooper's ideal political man. Thus it is essential reading for understanding the development of Cooper's political ideas and his ideas about the nature of American culture. In The Rhine, Cooper deepens his skill at picturesque description of landscape and extends the range of the picturesque to include cityscapes. The complex relations between visual objectives and ideas reverberates throughout the book, whether Cooper is commenting on the public gardens of Heidelburg, a private Alpine landscape, or, especially, the garden at Lafayette's home. With American landscapes and politics always in the background for comparison, Cooper surveys the order of life in Europe and asks for a more liberal and humane political order in Europe and a more human and cultivated social order in America.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper