Author: Charles Eliot Norton
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Notes of Travel and Study in Italy by Charles Eliot Norton
Author: Charles Eliot Norton
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
Author: Charles Eliot Norton
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Charles Eliot Norton
Author: Linda C. Dowling
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584656463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America. In modern times, by contrast, he has been condemned as the supercilious representative of an embattled patrician caste. This revisionary study argues that Norton’s genuine significance for American culture and politics today can only be grasped by recovering the vanished contexts in which his life and work took shape. In a wide-ranging analysis, Linda Dowling demonstrates the effects upon Norton’s thought of the great transatlantic humanitarian reform movement of the 1840s, the Pre-Raphaelite and Ruskinian revolution in art and architecture of the 1850s and the surging liberal optimism that emerged from the Civil War. Drawing on numerous deleted passages from Norton’s manuscript journals, Dowling probes beneath the imperturbable mask of the public Norton, bringing to light the elusive private man. Returning from Europe in 1873, bereft of his wife and stripped of his religious belief, Norton was compelled to confront the painful contradictions within his own liberal political faith. In a land given to celebrating freedom of speech, Norton would become a speaker subjected to physical threats for opposing the Spanish-American War. Among a people given to glorying in its superiority to other civilizations, he would become a social critic reviled for arguing that the nation was failing to live up to its own most cherished ideals. It would be Norton’s misfortune, shared with others of his generation, to watch the golden promise of a victorious war for the Union fade into the unrepentant cynicism of the Gilded Age. Yet Norton’s militant idealism and heroic citizenship, Dowling argues, survive now as a vital parable for American civic liberalism in the present day.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584656463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America. In modern times, by contrast, he has been condemned as the supercilious representative of an embattled patrician caste. This revisionary study argues that Norton’s genuine significance for American culture and politics today can only be grasped by recovering the vanished contexts in which his life and work took shape. In a wide-ranging analysis, Linda Dowling demonstrates the effects upon Norton’s thought of the great transatlantic humanitarian reform movement of the 1840s, the Pre-Raphaelite and Ruskinian revolution in art and architecture of the 1850s and the surging liberal optimism that emerged from the Civil War. Drawing on numerous deleted passages from Norton’s manuscript journals, Dowling probes beneath the imperturbable mask of the public Norton, bringing to light the elusive private man. Returning from Europe in 1873, bereft of his wife and stripped of his religious belief, Norton was compelled to confront the painful contradictions within his own liberal political faith. In a land given to celebrating freedom of speech, Norton would become a speaker subjected to physical threats for opposing the Spanish-American War. Among a people given to glorying in its superiority to other civilizations, he would become a social critic reviled for arguing that the nation was failing to live up to its own most cherished ideals. It would be Norton’s misfortune, shared with others of his generation, to watch the golden promise of a victorious war for the Union fade into the unrepentant cynicism of the Gilded Age. Yet Norton’s militant idealism and heroic citizenship, Dowling argues, survive now as a vital parable for American civic liberalism in the present day.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Author: Alfred Bendixen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
Europe For $2 a Day
Author: Moses Foster Sweetser
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385363551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385363551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
A Satchel Guide for the Vaction Tourist in Europe
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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The American Bicycler
Author: Charles Eadward Pratt
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Category : Bicycles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Bicycles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The New Eldorado
Author: Ballou
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The New Eldorado
Author: Maturin Murray Ballou
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Maritime provinces: a handbook for travellers [ed. by M.F. Sweetser].
Author: Maritime provinces
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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