Author: Nathaniel Parker WillisPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425558857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Out-doors at Idlewild
Author: Nathaniel Parker WillisPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425558857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Out-doors at Idlewild
Author: Nathaniel Parker WillisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Author: Nathaniel Parker WillisPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438486243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
During the 1850s and '60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary elites gathered and about which Willis himself wrote and published extensively. In 1846, Willis founded the Home Journal, which would go on to become Town and Country. In Out-Doors at Idlewild, first published in 1855, Willis chronicled the creation of his estate at Cornwall-on-Hudson (near West Point), as well as life amid its countryside. The land afforded brilliant views of the river and the mountains to the East. Calvert Vaux, the famed architect of both landscapes and houses, designed the elaborate and ornate Gothic Revival home, which Willis named Idlewood (whereas he called the estate Idlewild), and into which the Willis family moved in July of 1853. Here, Willis wrote a series of papers for the Home Journal documenting life at the seventy-acre estate. These papers were gathered together in Out-Doors at Idlewild, a celebration of Willis's home and estate.
Idle Threats
Author: Andrew Lyndon KnightonPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749445
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Journal of the New England Garden History Society
Author: Bachelor's Theses
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This is a collection of theses completed to fulfill B.S. requirements in the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin from 1895 to 1962.
Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, the Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Author: Nathaniel Parker WILLISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Outdoors at Idlewild
Author: WILLIS RENEHANPublisher:
ISBN: 9781438486222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Out-Doors at Idlewild, Or the Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson (Classic Reprint)
Author: N. P. WillisPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266186076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Excerpt from Out-Doors at Idlewild, or the Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson Country Boarding-houses - Luxury of Rural Remoteness - Viewless Peopling of a Spot - Wallace the Composer, and his Tribute to Alexander Smith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: M. DrewsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230103146
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the preponderance of food imagery in nineteenth-century literary texts. Contributors to this volume analyze the social, political, and cultural implications of scenes involving food and dining and illustrate how "aesthetic" notions of culinary preparation are often undercut by the actual practices of cooking and eating. As contributors interrogate the values and meanings behind culinary discourses, they complicate commonplace notions about American identity and question the power structure behind food production and consumption.
