Imagining New England

Imagining New England
Author :
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 404
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807875063
ISBN-13 : 0807875066
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Imagining New England by : Joseph A. Conforti

Download or read book Imagining New England written by Joseph A. Conforti and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.


Imagining New England Related Books

Picturing Old New England
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: William H. Truettner
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Despite the fact that there is a New England of cities, factories, and an increasingly diverse ethnic population, it is the Old New England that Americans have
Imagining New England
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Joseph A. Conforti
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-14 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quinte
The New England Image
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Samuel Chamberlain
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-16 - Publisher: Architectural Book Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For those who love New England, here is a matchless portrait by one of its most distinguished artists and observant admirers. Samuel Chamberlain photographed Ne
A Landscape History of New England
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Blake A. Harrison
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09 - Publisher: Mit Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mo
Marsden Hartley
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a painter, poet, writer, and pioneer of American modernism. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he lived a peripatetic life, working in Pa