Author: Bathsheba H. Morse CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life, Letters, and Wayside Gleanings
Author: Bathsheba H. Morse CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Wayside Gleanings in Europe
Author: Benjamin BausmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Passionate Pilgrims
Author: Allison LockwoodPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838622728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791499804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature." Sketches of Switzerland, the book which describes this experience and which is republished here for the first time in the United States since its original issue in 1836, was the first of five European travel books written, Cooper said, "for my own Countrymen," in which the American novelist gave "rapid sketches" of what he saw "with American eyes," studiously avoiding the drab, factual accounts of ordinary tourists. His indispensable resources in the composition of Switzerland were his gifts of total recall and his skill in writing prose pictures in the style then known as "picturesque." Seeking an immediacy analogous to that of the artist's brush, Cooper captures various elements of "picturesque" style, especially the incongruity between the sublime, terrifying scenery and the more familiar sights and associations of domestic life. Even in the creation of verbal pictures, Cooper could not resist expressing his concerns with society and politics; and though his criticism seems harmless enough today—perhaps even salutary—it was disturbing to American readers less secure than Cooper in their confidence in their institutions and society. Partly, at least, for this reason, Cooper's most successful nonfictional experiment in the "picturesque" mode has never been adequately appreciated.
The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2048
Book Description
Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library
Author: Ulric Zwingli
Author: Jean GrobPublisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Mercersburg Review
Author: The Guardian
Author: American Travellers Abroad
Author: Harold Frederick SmithPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810835542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR