<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Sanctified Landscape</TitleText> <Subtitle textcase="02">Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820

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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780801450808 03 01 Cornell University Press 01 GCOI 80140100050550 02 0801450802 03 9780801450808 15 9780801450808 59 BB <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Sanctified Landscape</TitleText> <Subtitle textcase="02">Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909</Subtitle> 1 A01 Schuyler, David David Schuyler David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980; Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852; and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and is an editor of The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers. 01 eng 240 00 240 03 47 03 33 24 14 HIS036080 HBJK 10 LIT004020 10 NAT011000 24 Internet Art, Architecture, and Photography 24 Internet History / U.S. and Canada 24 Internet Literature / U.S. and Canada 24 Internet New York State and City 01 01 01 The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence of a sense of place in the valley. Painters, led by Thomas Cole, founded the Hudson River School, widely recognized as the first truly national style of art. As the century advanced and as landscape and history became increasingly intertwined in the national consciousness, an aesthetic identity took shape in the region through literature, art, memory, and folklore—even gardens and domestic architecture. In Sanctified Landscape, David Schuyler recounts this story of America's idealization of the Hudson Valley during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Schuyler's story unfolds during a time of great change in American history. At the very moment when artists and writers were exploring the aesthetic potential of the Hudson Valley, the transportation revolution and the rise of industrial capitalism were transforming the region. The first generation of American tourists traveled from New York City to Cozzens Hotel and the Catskill Mountain House in search of the picturesque. Those who could afford to live some distance from jobs in the city built suburban homes or country estates. Given these momentous changes, it is not surprising that historic preservation emerged in the Hudson Valley: the first building in the United States preserved for its historic significance is Washington's Headquarters in Newburgh. Schuyler also finds the seeds of the modern environmental movement in the transformation of the Hudson Valley landscape.Richly illustrated and compellingly written, Sanctified Landscape makes for rewarding reading. Schuyler expertly ties local history to national developments, revealing why the Hudson River Valley was so important to nineteenth-century Americans—and why it is still beloved today. 02 In Sanctified Landscape, David Schuyler recounts the story of America's idealization of the Hudson Valley in art and literature during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 04 Introduction 1 The Tourists' River: Experiencing the Hudson Valley 2 The Artist's River: Thomas Cole 3 The Writers’ River: Washington Irving and N. P. Willis 4 The River in a Garden: A. J. Downing 5 Change and the Search for Continuity at Midcentury 6 Elegy for the Hudson River School: Jervis McEntee 7 The Naturalist’s River: John Burroughs 8 A River in Time: Preserving Landscape, Celebrating History Conclusion 08 "Schuyler has fashioned an absorbing account of the cultural milieu in which the Hudson Valley, a landscape of discrete villages, towns, and estates, was transformed into an iconic American region. . . . He adroitly foregrounds an abundant selection of contemporary sources testifying to the passionate sense of place these men exhibited in their professional and personal lives, as well as the influence most exerted, at least for a time, on the nation's aesthetic taste. Linking the Hudson Valley to early efforts of historic preservation and environmentalism, Schuyler commendably avoids the usual good-versus-evil narrative. The author's own sense of place is evident in illustrations and maps."—Choice (1 December 2012) 08 "We applaud the book's interdisciplinary investigation of portrayals of the Hudson River Valley. We experience the valley through the work of seminal figures like painter Thomas Cole, author Washington Irving, architect A. J. Downing as well as lesser-known but critical people like historian Benson John Lossing and artist Jervis McEntee. We learn that the Hudson River Valley is a place in the American imagination, as much myth as reality. Our heartiest congratulations on this impressive accomplishment!"—Citation from the 2013 Ruth Emery Award Committee (Victorian Society in America) 08 "Sanctified Landscape is a wonderful book. David Schuyler has clearly thought at great length about the part that the Hudson Valley has played in American history. Schuyler shares compelling narratives about environmental change and Americans' response to it, the importance of historical memory, and the domestication of the Hudson Valley."—Tom Lewis, Skidmore College, author of The Hudson: A History 04 03 72 01 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/resources/titles/80140100050550/images/80140100050550L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/resources/titles/80140100050550/images/80140100050550S.jpg http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100050550 Cornell University Press 01 02 2021862 Cornell University Press Ithaca US 04 20120515 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 08 24 oz 07 2021862 CUP Services http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu 02 CA MX US BV AL AD AM AU AT AZ BY BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FO FI GE DE GI GR HM HU IS IE MK IT PS KZ LV LI LT LU UM MT MC ME NL NZ NO PG PL PT RO RU SM AX SK SI ES SJ SE CH TR UA GB VA 02 Y 11 26 01 02 t 29.95 USD 06 5013546051314 NBN International http://www.nbninternational.com 02 BV AL AD AM AT AZ BY BE BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FO FI FR GE DE GI GR HM HU IS IE MK IT PS KZ LV LI LT UM MT MD MC ME NL NO PL PT RO RU SM AX SK SI ES SJ SE CH TR UA GB VA AU CA JP MX US NZ PG 02 Y 20 20120515 26 01 02 t 02 18.50 GBP