Prospects for the nation : recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880

Land and national representation in Britain / Elizabeth K. Helsinger -- The rough and the smooth : rural subjects in later-eighteenth-century art / Michael Rosenthal -- "Calculated to gratify the patriot" : rustic figure studies in early-nineteenth-century Britain / Christiana Payne -- Dressed to till : representational strategies in the depiction of rural labor, c. 1790-1830 / Sam Smiles -- Land, locality, people, landscape : the nineteenth-century countryside / Alun Howkins -- Representations of early industrial towns : Turner and his contemporaries / Maxine Berg -- Gilpin on the Wye : tourists, Tintern Abbey, and the picturesque / Stephen Copley -- Border country : the politics of the picturesque in the Middle Wye Valley : Stephen Daniels, Susanne Seymour, and Charles Watkins -- The constituents of Romantic genius : John Sell Cotman's great drawings / Andrew Hemingway -- From picturesque travel to scientific observation : artists' and geologists' voyages to Staffa / Charlotte Klonk -- Dido versus the pirates : Turner's Carthaginian paintings and the sublimation of colonial desire / Kay Dian Kriz -- For publicity and profit / Ann Pullan -- Industry from idleness? The rise of the amateur in the eighteenth century / Kim Sloan -- Looking backward : Victorian perspectives on the Romantic landscape watercolor / Scott Wilcox

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