Ross Barrett is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He is the author of Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and the coeditor, with Daniel Worden, of Oil Culture.

"Barrett illuminates a number of new perspectives from the period which make Speculative Landscapes…worth reading."

• ContentsIntroduction1. Land, Looking, and Futurity in the Hudson Valley 2. Digging for Gold: Allegories of Speculation on the Illinois Frontier3. Picturing Land and Labor in the Old Northwest and New England4. Perilous Prospects: Speculation and Landscape Painting in Florida 5. Painting and Property on Prouts Neck Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

Ross Barrett is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He is the author of Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and the coeditor, with Daniel Worden, of Oil Culture.

"Barrett illuminates a number of new perspectives from the period which make Speculative Landscapes…worth reading."

• ContentsIntroduction1. Land, Looking, and Futurity in the Hudson Valley 2. Digging for Gold: Allegories of Speculation on the Illinois Frontier3. Picturing Land and Labor in the Old Northwest and New England4. Perilous Prospects: Speculation and Landscape Painting in Florida 5. Painting and Property on Prouts Neck Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

Ross Barrett is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He is the author of Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and the coeditor, with Daniel Worden, of Oil Culture.

"Barrett illuminates a number of new perspectives from the period which make Speculative Landscapes…worth reading."

• ContentsIntroduction1. Land, Looking, and Futurity in the Hudson Valley 2. Digging for Gold: Allegories of Speculation on the Illinois Frontier3. Picturing Land and Labor in the Old Northwest and New England4. Perilous Prospects: Speculation and Landscape Painting in Florida 5. Painting and Property on Prouts Neck Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index