| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert E. Abrams. Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, number 139.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 168. $60.00.

This book offers a concise but ambitious reinterpretation of the rhetoric of landscape representation in the mid-nineteenth-century United States. Through examination of selected works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Harding Davis, and (what survives of) Chief Seattle's speech on the advent of white settlement, American literature scholar Robert E. Abrams argues for a particular "cultural politics of American literary ambiguity," in the words of one of the book's six main chapter titles.

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