George Washington Written Upon the Land

Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape

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George Washington's childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington's formative years. In "George Washington Written upon the Land," Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington's childhood functioned--what sorts of lessons they sought to teach and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself.
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Levy, Philip
Titel
George Washington Written Upon the Land
Uitgever
West Virginia University Press
Jaar
2015
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
224
Gewicht
431 gr
EAN
9781940425894
Afmetingen
216 x 133 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Hardback

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