British and American art and literature, 1790/1860 /
edited by Andrew Hemingway and Alan Wallach.
Amherst and Boston :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2015.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The city. "The pit of modern art" : practice and ambition in the London art world -- The urban ecology of art in Antebellum New York -- Urban convalescence in Lamb, Poe, and Baudelaire -- History. Sublime and fall : Benjamin West and the politics of the sublime in early nineteenth-century Marylebone -- Benjamin West's royal chapel at Windsor : who's in charge, the patron or the painter? -- The politics of style : Allston's and Martin's Belshazzars -- James Fenimore Cooper and American artists in Europe : art, religion, politics -- Landscape. John Martin, Thomas Cole, and deep time -- "Gorgeous, but altogether false" : Turner, Cole, and transatlantic ideas of decline -- Thomas Cole and transatlantic romanticism -- Race. Picturing the murder of Jane McCrea : a critical moment in transatlantic romanticism -- The romantic Indian commodified : text and image in George Catlin's Letters and notes (1841) -- Romantic racialism and the antislavery novels of Stowe, Hildreth, and Melville.