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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; ForewordLeo Marx; 1. Introduction Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles; Part I.Prospects: 2. 'Gilded backgrounds': reflections on the perception of spaceand landscape in America Clive Bush; 3. The impermanent sublime: nature,photography and the Petrarchan tradition Olaf Hansen; 4. American landscapeand the figure of anticipation: paradox and recourse Stephen Fender; 5.Trails of photographic notions: expeditionary photography in the AmericanWest Philip Strokes; Part II. Anglo-American Perspectives: 6. The absentlandscape of America's eighteenth century Robert Clark; 7. Ecriture andlandscape: British writing on post-revolutionary America Christopher Mulvey;8. Dickens goes west Robert Lawson-Peebles; Part III. American Illustrations:9. The old world and the new in the national landscapes of John NealFrancesca O. Vanni; 10. Landscape painting and the domestic typology ofpost-revolutionary America Graham Clarke; 11. Winter landscape in the earlyRepublic: survival and sentimentality Bernard Mergen; 12. The dark view ofthings: the isolated figure in the American landscapes of Cole and BryantAllen J. Koppenhaver; 13. The figure of the Indian in photographic landscapesMick Gidley; Index.