Landscape and Memory (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Simon Schama
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: From antiquity to the 1990’s
- Setting: The Middle East, Europe, and America
- Principal Characters: Gutzon Borglum, Claude François Denecourt, Casper David Friedrich, Anselm Kiefer, Louis XIV, Adam Mickiewicz, John Muir, Sir Walter Ralegh, Cornelius Tacitus, Henry David Thoreau, J. M. W. Turner
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: History, Memory, Mythology or myths, Nature, Authors or writers, Human race, Painting or painters, Environment or environmental health
- Locales: Europe, United States, Middle East
Simon Schama, born in London and educated in England, is one of the most provocative and evocative historians of the late twentieth century. His brilliant study of the Netherlands during its golden age (The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, 1987) was followed by the best-selling and revisionist Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989). His Dead Certainties (1991), combining history and speculation, was dismissed by some members of the historical profession as a fictional hybrid. In Landscape and...
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