Elizabeth Mckinsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 680134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Mckinsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckinsey |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINSEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Perfecting of Nature
The Perfecting of Nature, Josh Doty's fresh look at nineteenth-century American literature classics through the lens of contemporary scientific discourse on nutrition, health, and phrenology, makes the case that the focus of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes on “self-culture” (William Ellery Channing's 1838 lecture title) was a physical, as well…
Across the Great Border Fault
Across the Great Border Fault presents case studies of two very different approaches to nature study and scientific experiment enacted within a few miles of each other just outside New York City in the early and mid-twentieth century. The first is the American Museum of Natural History's ambitious educational program in Harriman State Park, beginning with the park's creation in 1910. Kevin Dann describes the design of labeled nature trails, summe…
Niagara
Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so maddened by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional …
American Wanderlust
Beneath the American Renaissance
Journal Article Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. By David S. Reynolds. (New York: Knopf, 1988. x + 625 pp. $35.00.) Get access Elizabeth McKinsey Elizabeth McKinsey Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 597–598, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908029 Published: 01 Septe…
John Frederick Kensett
Sublimity and the Civilizing Process
Here the Country Lies
Niagara
Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so maddened by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional …
Here the Country Lies
John Frederick Kensett
Sublimity and the Civilizing Process
Beneath the American Renaissance
Journal Article Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. By David S. Reynolds. (New York: Knopf, 1988. x + 625 pp. $35.00.) Get access Elizabeth McKinsey Elizabeth McKinsey Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 597–598, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908029 Published: 01 Septe…
American Wanderlust
Niagara
Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so maddened by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional …
Across the Great Border Fault
Across the Great Border Fault presents case studies of two very different approaches to nature study and scientific experiment enacted within a few miles of each other just outside New York City in the early and mid-twentieth century. The first is the American Museum of Natural History's ambitious educational program in Harriman State Park, beginning with the park's creation in 1910. Kevin Dann describes the design of labeled nature trails, summe…
The Perfecting of Nature
The Perfecting of Nature, Josh Doty's fresh look at nineteenth-century American literature classics through the lens of contemporary scientific discourse on nutrition, health, and phrenology, makes the case that the focus of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes on “self-culture” (William Ellery Channing's 1838 lecture title) was a physical, as well…
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