Brigitte Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the co-editor, with Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright, of Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (University of New Hampshire Press, 2013) and also a co-editor, with Beth L. Lueck and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, of Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (University of New Hampshire Press, 2012).

This is a theoretically rich exploration of a central topic in American cultural history. By examining how a host of antebellum American authors treated the Italian landscape in their works, Bailey reveals not only the complexity of their aesthetic practices, but also their key contributions to social and political developments in the United States.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Irving's Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist's Estate2. The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist's Gaze3. Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s4. Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries5. National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican Subject in Hawthorne and StoweConclusion: Gender and GenreNotesBibliography

Brigitte Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the co-editor, with Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright, of Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (University of New Hampshire Press, 2013) and also a co-editor, with Beth L. Lueck and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, of Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (University of New Hampshire Press, 2012).

This is a theoretically rich exploration of a central topic in American cultural history. By examining how a host of antebellum American authors treated the Italian landscape in their works, Bailey reveals not only the complexity of their aesthetic practices, but also their key contributions to social and political developments in the United States.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Irving's Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist's Estate2. The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist's Gaze3. Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s4. Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries5. National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican Subject in Hawthorne and StoweConclusion: Gender and GenreNotesBibliography

Brigitte Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the co-editor, with Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright, of Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (University of New Hampshire Press, 2013) and also a co-editor, with Beth L. Lueck and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, of Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (University of New Hampshire Press, 2012).

This is a theoretically rich exploration of a central topic in American cultural history. By examining how a host of antebellum American authors treated the Italian landscape in their works, Bailey reveals not only the complexity of their aesthetic practices, but also their key contributions to social and political developments in the United States.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Irving's Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist's Estate2. The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist's Gaze3. Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s4. Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries5. National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican Subject in Hawthorne and StoweConclusion: Gender and GenreNotesBibliography