Dislocations
Stephen Fender, 19 January 1989
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The world turned upside down
by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Cambridge, 384 pp., £35, March 1988,0 521 34647 9 Show More
by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Cambridge, 384 pp., £35, March 1988,
Mark Twain’s Letters. Vol. I: 1853-1866
edited by Edgar MarquessBranch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson.
California, 616 pp., $35, May 1988,0 520 03668 9 Show More
edited by Edgar MarquessBranch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson.
California, 616 pp., $35, May 1988,
A Writer’s America: Landscape in Literature
by Alfred Kazin.
Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £15.95, September 1988,0 500 01424 8 Show More
by Alfred Kazin.
Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £15.95, September 1988,
“... European landscape analysis. The famous descriptions in Notes of the natural stone bridge over a branch of the James River, and of the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge Mountains, establish the picturesque by means of cunningly juxtaposed evocations of the sublime and the beautiful. (The first of these terms, perhaps because American topography ... ”
