Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-century American Literature and Painting
- ISBN-10
- 3825351963
- ISBN-13
- 9783825351960
- Series
- Walking in the Wilderness
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Winter
- Author
- Michaela Keck
Description
This book investigates the adaptation and transformation of the European peripatetic tradition in nineteenth-century America; in particular Henry David Thoreau's literary walks and their visual counterparts in American landscape painting. Although Thoreau's perambulations in New World nature have been stated in scholarship, no study has offered a comparative analysis, nor has the philosophic-contemplative aspect of his 'art of Walking" been sufficiently studied. The present study puts his walking pattern into a transatlantic as well as interdisciplinary context and illuminates the uniquely American aesthetic-philosophic considerations underlying the genre of the walk in American nineteenth-century literature and painting.
