Imagining New England
Author | : Joseph Anthony Conforti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780080786254 |
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Author | : Joseph Anthony Conforti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780080786254 |
Author | : Joseph A. Conforti |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2003-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807875066 |
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.
Author | : Shaun O'Connell |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
O'Connell (English, U. of Mass., Boston) discusses not only the familiar Boston/Cambridge/Concord literary figures (from Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne to Updike, Cheever and Robert Lowell) but also authors of other roots and regions, including Edwin O'Connor, WEB Dubois, John Greenleaf Whittier, Norman Mailer, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Joseph A. Conforti |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2007-08-31 |
Genre | : Portland (Me.) |
ISBN | : 9781584654490 |
The only comprehensive study of Portland s history, culture, and people."
Author | : Katharine Breen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521199220 |
Argues that the adaptation of habitus for a universal audience supported the development of a vernacular reading public.
Author | : Joseph Monninger |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780811829748 |
When this memoirist, his girlfriend, and her son move into a New Hampshire farm that needs love and care, fixing it up becomes an art form.
Author | : Dennis Todd |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1995-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226805566 |
In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity.
Author | : Trevor J. Fairbrother |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300116926 |
An insightful and beautiful look at how New England's summers have inspired American artists for decades With its stunning coastlines, mountains, lakes, forests, and scenic villages, New England has been an inspiration for American artists since the 19th century. This lively book considers the ways in which painters have responded to the region's summer beauty as well as to its social and cultural preoccupations and characteristics. Works by such artists as Fitz Henry Lane, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Hans Hofmann, Andrew Wyeth, Alex Katz, and Yvonne Jacquette depict subjects as wide ranging as the bucolic delights of farms and fields to the atmospheric light of New England's rugged coasts to the ethnic and social diversity of urban street life. Painting Summer in New England highlights the various styles and influences revealed in these works, including photographic realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, and abstraction. In addition, Trevor Fairbrother discusses the tremendous array of works covered by the concept of "painting" and the remarkable richness of thematic imagery that can be seen and understood as "New England." This engaging book is a delightful and invaluable resource for those who live in or are admirers of New England and American art.
Author | : Paula Bennett |
Publisher | : Bauer and Dean Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | : 9780983863243 |
Includes 25 adapted historic recipes.Prompted by a serendipitous visit to a bookstore, an epiphany leads Paula and her husband, Harvey, to southern Maine where they both fall in love with the General Ichabod Goodwin House--affectionately called Old Fields. Built at the end of the eighteenth century, the historic house still has its original nine-over-six windows, early Georgian moldings, and wide-plank painted wood floors. But it was the keeping room with its eight-foot wide, five-foot high hearth that captured their imaginations. After they sign the deed, the author begins to diligently research the house's first inhabitants, taking us back into early American history. Paula's research continues as she undertakes the challenge of furnishing the eight rooms in the original part of the house. Trying to evoke an eighteenth-century atmosphere, Paula and Harvey visit historic house museums and build a library on early American décor. Most helpful were the two inventories the author found in the collection of Goodwin family papers at Dartmouth--those of the first two Goodwins to head Old Fields, a father and son, both named Ichabod.Once the house is furnished, Paula's favorite pastime becomes imagining the lives of those first two Ichabods and their families over 250 years ago, not only their daily routines, but how their lives intertwined with larger historic events that helped shape America. Aside from having a passion for early American history, Paula's avid interest in the culinary arts leads her to research and recreate historic recipes, which are woven throughout the text. Another wonderful addition to this story is the discoveries from the archaeological dig in progress outside their front door. Based on the myriad items unearthed since 2011, many details about the chronology of the property and the house have come to light.This book is for anyone who lives in a historic house; who loves archaeology, early American history, and historic cooking; or for those armchair adventurers who will enjoy the Bennetts journey as they "cultivate a slower, less technology-based existence, cherry-picking from the past" and incorporating those pickings into their twenty-first-century lifestyle.
Author | : John S. Burk |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1611680093 |
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