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The Forest
Alexander Nemerov
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Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States
“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News
“This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characters—such as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner—are well known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs.
The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths or go their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For Alexander Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions of the people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America, illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs, The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.
Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Leather, Engraving, National Gallery of Art, Edgar Allan Poe, Sulky, Laura Bridgman, Poetry, John Constable, Ashbel Smith, Claude Lorrain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Illustration, Burial, Magnifying glass, Karl Bodmer, V., John James Audubon, Phrenology, Helen Jewett, Oxford University Press, Piasa, Nat Turner, Great Dismal Swamp, John Quidor, Easel, William Maclure, Wreath, Thought, Slavery, Smithsonian Institution, Hudson River, Handkerchief, Philip Hone, Photography, James Fenimore Cooper, Tracery, Book, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Forest floor, Samuel Morse, Jane McCrea, Monks Mound, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Young Goodman Brown, Germination, Cahokia, Sequoyah, Joslyn Art Museum, Hyde Hall, Locust tree, Fanny Kemble, Alexander Nemerov, Hiram Powers, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Clocks, William Sidney Mount, Lam Qua, Yale University Art Gallery, Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone), Fine art, Delicacy, Writing, Antiquarian, Pym (novel), Alexander Jackson Davis, Salt well, Francis Parkman