Horizons of the sublime : the invention of the romantic west
Much of the invented tradition that developed from the early images of the West was based in American interpretations of the European Romantic tradition and grew out of the art and literature that surrounded the American fur trade of the Rocky
The attempt to create a nation-state in the form of the Southern Confederacy was an act of political geography, induced by growing sectional identities and the forces of romantic nationalism. The military defeat of the Confederacy enhanced Southern
identity rather than destroyed it. Monuments erected throughout the South can be interpreted as a romantic version of the antebellum South.
The Central Valley, California's richest agricultural region, does not correspond to romantic pastoral ideals perpetuated by American high culture. The A. describes its special character as photographers have seen it and finds in its utilitarian
In the late nineteenth century, national parks in the USA were seen as places imbubed with romantic ideas of the picturesque and sublime and belief in the restorative powers of nature. These ideas about parks linger in the American consciousness
The Catskills, within 120 km of New York City, attracted vacationers beginning in the late eighteenth century based on the favorable landscape depictions of the area by painters and writers of the Romantic movement. In the early twentieth century
The article is talking about of mythological, religious and philosophical origins of the centre-periphery opposition and the Balkan as peripheral territory in the Macedonian media, for example Kolbe's romantic novel Snow in Casablanca
This paper tells the story of László Almásy the outstanding Hungarian desert explorer whose life inspired the authors of the Oscar-wining film The English Patient. Author gives a comprehensive and factual biography about one of the last romantic
The New England tradition of large colonial houses encircling town commons to form Puritan villages was invented in the nineteenth century. The contemporary village ensemble became the historical tableau upon which the Romantic myth was played out
protection, and revenue-enhancing forests solved the tension between romantic preservationist notions and laissez-faire ideals and gave the compromise from which modern environmentalism emerged : it posed environmental problems and solutions as a means
the lake became accessible by rail, American and Canadian promotional literature and graphic illustrations emphasized the romantic nature of its paddle-wheel excursions, scenic landscape and resort hotels. This type of tourism was depicted as a passive
This paper explores some of the contested meanings of ‘home’ for those who are single; and examine how single people have created new forms of home and new spaces of at-homeness with those with whom they are not biologically (or romantically
The A. conceives the history of Burma as a romantic stage drama and relates, in chronological order, the different steps of the events which led to the emergence of a new Burma and the uplifting of the international sanctions pending
to travel journalism than to academic geography descriptions of the country), as well as to the influence of Romantic paradigm and the importance given to Spain’s regional diversity in the image conveyed by the magazine.