Narrating the Landscape: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century

Contents: 

• Introduction Landscape and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
• Reading the Past outside the Window: Competing Visions of History in Paintings and Railroad Guidebooks
• The Anatomy of Greed: Newport Tourist Literature and the Luminist Works of William Trost Richards and John Frederick Kensett
• 'Walking Statues': Narrative and Landscape in Early American Ethnology
• The Figuration of Time in the Geological Surveys of the West