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Reading houses and building books : Andrew Jackson Downing and the architecture of popular antebellum literature, 1835-1855 /

Andrew Jackson Downing's reputation as architect, landscape designer, and author spread far beyond his native Hudson River Valley during the first half of the 19th century. But as Adam Sweeting suggests in this elegantly written, illustrated account, Downing's real legacy lies in the philo...

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Main Author: Sweeting, Adam W., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover : University Press of New England, c1996.
Subjects:
Downing, A. J. > (Andrew Jackson), > 1815-1852 > Influence.
American literature > Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Architecture and literature > History > 19th century.
Landscape architecture > United States.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > Intellectual life.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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