xvii, 300 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Nature and aesthetics in nineteenth-century America -- Tracking nature's truth : Susan Fenimore Cooper -- The metaphor of progress : Thomas Cole and the improvements of the American picturesque -- The metaphor of refinement : Andrew Jackson Downing and the moral prescription for landscape -- The metaphor of reason : Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental dominion -- Passion for nature beyond metaphor : from Walden to Henry David Thoreau's late natural history projects -- Conclusion: The canalization of metaphor.
