Published 2016
“…This thesis is an examination of the different conceptions of the sublime in relation to
Niagara Falls. Viewing the Falls as representative of numerous key ideas about American nature in general, I argue that its artificial illumination in the early twentieth century made possible the realization of aesthetic ideals of natural purity first formulated in the eighteenth century, despite industrialization’s profound alterations to the landscape across the nineteenth century. …”
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