American iconology : new approaches to nineteenth-century art and literature / edited by David C. Miller

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Contents: Peale's mammoth / Laura Rigal -- The Boston elite's resistance to Washington Allston's Elijah in the Desert / David Bjelajac -- On the cultural construction of landscape experience: Contact to 1830 / Kenneth John Myers -- Making a picture of the view from Mount Holyoke / Alan Wallach -- The protected witness: Cole, Cooper, and the tourist's view of the Italian landscape / Brigitte Bailey -- The mechanisms of the market and the invention of western regionalism: The example of George Caleb Bingham / Angela Miller -- Lilly Martin Spencer's domestic genre painting in antebellum America / David Lubin -- Words, monuments, beholders: The visual arts in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun / Robert H. Byer -- The iconology of wrecked or stranded boats in mid to late nineteenth-century American culture / David C. Miller -- The price of beauty: Art, commerce, and the late nineteenth-century American studio interior / Sarah Burns -- Mary Cassatt and the maternal body / Harriet Scott Chessman -- A pragmatic mode of seeing: James, Howells, and the politics of vision / Emily Fourmy Cutrer