Main entry:

Burns, Sarah.

Title & Author:

Pastoral inventions : rural life in nineteenth-century American art and culture / Sarah Burns.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989.

Description:

xi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm

Series:

American civilization

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-368) and index.
I: Farmscapes ideal and real: -- The iconography of the Agrarian World, c. 1825-1875 -- The poetry of labor -- "Unlovable things": farmscapes real -- Beneath the Idyll -- II: The changing image of the Yankee farmer: -- The noble Yeoman -- Hicks -- Jonathans -- Bumpkins by contrast -- Grandfathers and geezers -- Peasants -- III: The anxieties of nostalgia: -- Rural heavens and urban hells -- The homestead -- Barefoot boys and other country children.

ISBN:

087722580X (alk. paper)
9780877225805 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Country life in art.
Arts, American 19th century.
Pastoral art United States.
Vie rurale dans l'art.
Arts américains 19e siècle.
Pastorales (Art) États-Unis.
Arts, American.
Civilization.
Pastoral art.
Kultur
Künste
Landleben
Geschichte (1830-1900)
United States Civilization 19th century.
États-Unis Civilisation 19e siècle.
United States.
USA
kunst
arts
cultuur
culture
vertier
entertainment
geschiedenis
history
plastiek
plastic arts
recreatie
recreation
plattelandsgemeenschappen
rural communities
sociologie
sociology
sport
vs
usa
beschaving
civilization
cultuurgeschiedenis
cultural history
Rural History of North America
Rurale geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.

Added entries:

American civilization.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 45539
Call No.: ID:89-B4875
Status: Available