Arcadian America : the death and life of an environmental tradition /
"Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible t...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | New directions in narrative history.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue, waterfalls and cemeteries
- Common shade: cultivating a place for death
- The middle landscapes of New England culture
- Sleepy Hollow: a young nation in repose
- Stumps
- Three men of the middle border (part one): twilight
- Three men of the middle border (part two): American homelessness
- Atlantis: Arcadia and Armageddon
- Epilogue: American Gothic; or death by landscape.
