Erie Railway Tourist, 1854–1886 : Transporting Visual Culture
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Text & Print Culture
ISBN-10
1611462703
ISBN-13
9781611462708
Publisher
Lehigh University Press
Imprint
Lehigh University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2018
Print length
120 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 24.00 x 0.90 cms
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This book explores the Erie Railway's contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture by promoting scenic thinking in which closely viewed scenes and deep prospects became the basis for engaging landscapes and their representations. Erie guides became commentary on landscape, with images and texts as annotations on the production of culture.
This book explores how the Erie Railway, in developing a series of sophisticated travel guides, made significant contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture and shaped the social life of Americans. The Erie Railway emerged during a time in which a societal response to the production of landscape paintings and prints led to a concurrent development of tourism. The era promoted a visual culture that encouraged scenic thinking in which closely viewed scenes and deep prospects became the basis for engaging physical landscapes and their representations. Revealing how visual culture apprehends aspects of reality that texts only partially grasp, the Erie guides became an important part of the commentary on the role of landscape in nineteenth-century American life. Their images and texts are worth our attention as annotations on the production of culture.
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