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American Writers and the Picturesque Tour: The Search for National Identity, 1790-1860

By Beth L. Lueck
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By Beth L. Lueck
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Explores a beloved genre Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of th...

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