Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Typologies of Landscape -- Meanings of Landscape -- Country Matters -- Landscape and nationalism -- Landscape and American exceptionalism -- European views of American nineteenth-century landscape painting -- Iconological and cross-cultural interpretations of American art -- A transatlantic iconology -- Paysages Moralisés -- Mindscapes -- Allegorical landscapes -- Arcadia and -- The Claudian landscape -- The waters of Eden -- The wilderness: The Salvatorian landscape -- Claude and Salvator in America -- The American Arcadia -- Land without man -- American pastoral -- Environmental impact -- The picturesque wilderness -- The sublime wilderness -- Rowing in Eden -- River Arcadias -- Rivers of life -- "Sweete Themmes Runne Softly" -- The Hudson River -- River bends: From Thomas Cole to George Inness -- Life on the Mississippi -- Sweet Water -- The "universally most liked picture" -- The iconology of the pond-in-the-forest pictures -- Holy waters -- American ponds and lakes -- "Compleat" anglers -- The pond and the abandoned canoe -- Mill ponds -- Rowing in Eden -- Romantic rowers -- Rowing in Eden: -- Luminism: -- Boat racing: Eakins on the Schuylkill -- Boating parties -- Hunters in Eden -- The hunt -- The iconology of the hunter in America -- The hunter as sportsman -- The manly outdoors -- The hunter and the hunted: Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks -- Sea Changes -- Painted Ships and Arcadian Beaches -- The iconology of the sea and the boat -- Harbor views -- Sea views: Paradigms of meditation and luminism -- The wreck on the beach -- The empty shore -- Seaside resorts and coastal art colonies -- Arcadian -- Breezing up -- The Angry Sea -- Salvatorian seascapes -- Shipwrecks and Flying Dutchmen -- Monsters of the deep: Copley's -- The open boat: Winslow Homer's.

Miraculous Catches and Arcadian fishermen -- Seascape genre: Toilers of the sea -- Epilogue -- Waterscapes in Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Culture -- Arcadias in the age of modernism -- Suburban pools -- The pond-in-the-forest scene toward the end of the twentieth century -- Twentieth-century sea views -- Notes -- Introduction: Typologies of Landscape -- Country Matters -- Paysages Moralisés -- Claude and Salvator in America -- River Arcadias -- Sweet Water -- Rowing in Eden -- Hunters in Eden -- Painted Ships and Arcadian Beaches -- The Angry Sea -- Waterscapes in Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Culture -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions of American Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting, 1983- 2007 -- Index.