Wayside Gleanings in Europe
Author | : Benjamin Bausman |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Benjamin Bausman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Benjamin Bausman |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2018-01-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780483511057 |
Excerpt from Wayside Gleanings in Europe As the gleaner, at the close of the day, carefully as sorts every head of Wheat gathered, and binds the golden grain into sheaves, so was I in the habit of assorting and storing away the fruits of each day at its close. In secluded mountain retreats, in village inns, and in the more noisy quarters of the crowded city, I thrashed the harvest and garnered it in articles for the columns and pages of different periodicals. Thus it happened that the greater part of this volume was written at or near the places to which reference is made. The impressions of men and manners, of things seen, heard and felt, were noted down when yet fresh and vivid in the mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Bathsheba H. Morse Crane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : New England |
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Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780873955997 |
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1983-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0791499804 |
In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature." Sketches of Switzerland, the book which describes this experience and which is republished here for the first time in the United States since its original issue in 1836, was the first of five European travel books written, Cooper said, "for my own Countrymen," in which the American novelist gave "rapid sketches" of what he saw "with American eyes," studiously avoiding the drab, factual accounts of ordinary tourists. His indispensable resources in the composition of Switzerland were his gifts of total recall and his skill in writing prose pictures in the style then known as "picturesque." Seeking an immediacy analogous to that of the artist's brush, Cooper captures various elements of "picturesque" style, especially the incongruity between the sublime, terrifying scenery and the more familiar sights and associations of domestic life. Even in the creation of verbal pictures, Cooper could not resist expressing his concerns with society and politics; and though his criticism seems harmless enough today—perhaps even salutary—it was disturbing to American readers less secure than Cooper in their confidence in their institutions and society. Partly, at least, for this reason, Cooper's most successful nonfictional experiment in the "picturesque" mode has never been adequately appreciated.
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
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Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780873953665 |
Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832 revolt in Paris, when he hoped General Lafayette would be declared President of France and when all of Europe was the stage for the morality play of French politics. Published in 1836 after General Lafayette's death, the book is, in part, an apologia for Lafayette, Cooper's ideal political man. Thus it is essential reading for understanding the development of Cooper's political ideas and his ideas about the nature of American culture. In The Rhine, Cooper deepens his skill at picturesque description of landscape and extends the range of the picturesque to include cityscapes. The complex relations between visual objectives and ideas reverberates throughout the book, whether Cooper is commenting on the public gardens of Heidelburg, a private Alpine landscape, or, especially, the garden at Lafayette's home. With American landscapes and politics always in the background for comparison, Cooper surveys the order of life in Europe and asks for a more liberal and humane political order in Europe and a more human and cultivated social order in America.
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1851* |
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