Theresa,

I just finished teaching a class for a grad seminar on this topic and found
your query. My campus bookstore wasn't able to order Angela Miller's Empire
of the Eye, unfortunately. Anyway, in addition to what you list below you
may want to try all or parts of the following:

American Wilderness: A New History. Edited by Michael Lewis. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2007.
(Contains some good essays, esp. for historical context.)

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of
New England. New York: Hill & Wang, 2003.
(I usually assign a chapter sometime during the first few classes, to help
develop conceptualizations of terms like "nature," "wilderness," and
"farm.")

Wylie, John. Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2007.
(A cogent primer on landscape theory and cultural geography. I've had good
luck teaching the chapter titled "Landscape Phenomenology.")

Best,

Justin Wolff

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Leininger-Miller, Theresa (leinint) <
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>  Hello.
> The last time I taught a grad seminar on 19th-century American landscape
> painting was 2002.  I am looking for reasonably priced books/ exhibition
> catalogues that we can use as textbooks.  Those starred below seem to be out
> of print, at least according to UC's bookstore order form.  In addition to
> the others (to which I add quite a few articles), what might anyone
> recommend for a class that is 10 weeks long?
>
>
> Bedell, Rebecca.  *The Anatomy of Nature:  Geology and American Landscape
> Painting, 1825-1875*.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2001.
> ISBN  0691074631
>
>
>
> Conron, John.  *American Picturesque*.  Philadelphia:  Pennsylvania State
> Press, 2000.  ISBN  0271019204
>
>
>
> *Ketner, Joseph D.  *The Emergence of the African-American Artist:  Robert
> S. Duncanson, 1821-1872*.  Columbia:  University of Missouri Press, 1993.
>
>
>
> Miller, Angela.  *The Empire of the Eye:  Landscape Representation and
> America*.  Cornell:  Cornell University Press, 1996.  ISBN  0801483387
>
>
>
> Novak, Barbara.  *Nature and Culture:  American Landscape and Painting,
> 1825-1875*.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1995.  ISBN  019510188X
>
>
>
> *Truettner, William, ed.  *The West as America:  Reinterpreting Images of
> the Frontier, 1820-1920*.  Washington, D.C.:  Smithsonian Institution
> Press, 1991.  F596.W493
>
>
> Btw, I am going to the symposium on the subject at New Paltz soon, and look
> forward to recommendations from participants there, too.
> Many thanks,
> Theresa    [log in to unmask]
>
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