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Myers, Kenneth John. "Selling the Sublime: The Catskills and the Social Construction of Landscape Experience in the United States, 1776-1876," Yale University, May 1990.
“Selling the Sublime” explores the interconnected histories of Catskill Mountain painting, literature, and tourism in order to describe the historical process by which early and mid-nineteenth-century American learned how to appreciate natural environments as landscapes and to value such experiences so highly as to be willing to pay for them. The first four chapters concern the popularization of landscape in the period 1776-1838, with particular attention to the influence of landscape ideas and values imported from Britain and to the economics of mountain tourism in the Catskills. The last chapter and five appendices trace the changing structure of Catskill Mountain art, literature, and tourism in the period 1839-1876.
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