Views of American Landscapes Book

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword Leo Marx; Acknowledgements;

1. Introduction Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles;

Part I. Prospects:
2. 'Gilded backgrounds': reflections on the perception of space and landscape in America Clive Bush;
3. The impermanent sublime: nature, photography and the Petrarchan tradition Olaf Hansen;
4. American landscape and the figure of anticipation: paradox and recourse Stephen Fender;
5. Trails of topographic notions: expeditionary photography in the American West Philip Stokes;

Part II. Anglo-American Perspectives:
6. The absent landscape of America's eighteenth century Robert Clark;
7. Ecriture and landscape: British writing on post-revolutionary America Christopher Mulvey;
8. Dickens goes west Robert Lawson-Peebles;

Part III. American Illustrations:
9. The old world and the new in the national landscapes of John Neal Francesca Orestano;
10. Landscape painting and the domestic typology of post-revolutionary America Graham Clarke;
11. Winter landscape in the early Republic: survival and sentimentality Bernard Mergen;
12. The dark view of things: the isolated figure in the American landscapes of Cole and Bryant Allen J. Koppenhaver;
13. The figure of the Indian in photographic landscapes Mick Gidley; Index.