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- catalog abstract "Niagara Falls was a lightning rod for nineteenth-century enthusiasms. Although travelers came to the falls to experience a place they considered outside the world of their ordinary lives, they brought with them their contemporary concerns. Many tourists were obsessed with the mysteries of death, others with scientific or religious speculation. The way they imagined Niagara Falls found expression in a torrent of writings and images that took a variety of forms. Patrick McGreevy begins with the question, What can these visions of Niagara tell us about the place itself? The landscape surrounding the falls contains not only parks and religious shrines but also circuses, horror museums, and factories. People travel to Niagara not only to experience nature but also to celebrate marriages or commit suicide. One way to make sense of these bizarre "human accumulations," as H.G. Wells called them, is to take seriously the Niagaras people have imagined. This book focuses on four interlocking themes that recur time and again in descriptions of the falls: Niagara as a thing imagined from afar, as a metaphor for death, as an embodiment of nature, and as a focus of future events. Using the skills of a cultural geographer, McGreevy discovers some surprising connections between the Niagara people have imagined and the one they made, between its natural grandeur and its industrial exploitation, between Frederick Law Olmsted's Reservation and the Love Canal.".
- catalog contributor b5777395.
- catalog coverage "Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)".
- catalog coverage "Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.)".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Imagining Niagara -- 2. The Distant Niagara -- 3. Death at Niagara -- 4. The Nature of Niagara -- 5. The Future at Niagara.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-185) and index.".
- catalog description "Niagara Falls was a lightning rod for nineteenth-century enthusiasms. Although travelers came to the falls to experience a place they considered outside the world of their ordinary lives, they brought with them their contemporary concerns. Many tourists were obsessed with the mysteries of death, others with scientific or religious speculation. The way they imagined Niagara Falls found expression in a torrent of writings and images that took a variety of forms.".
- catalog description "One way to make sense of these bizarre "human accumulations," as H.G. Wells called them, is to take seriously the Niagaras people have imagined. This book focuses on four interlocking themes that recur time and again in descriptions of the falls: Niagara as a thing imagined from afar, as a metaphor for death, as an embodiment of nature, and as a focus of future events.".
- catalog description "Patrick McGreevy begins with the question, What can these visions of Niagara tell us about the place itself? The landscape surrounding the falls contains not only parks and religious shrines but also circuses, horror museums, and factories. People travel to Niagara not only to experience nature but also to celebrate marriages or commit suicide.".
- catalog description "Using the skills of a cultural geographer, McGreevy discovers some surprising connections between the Niagara people have imagined and the one they made, between its natural grandeur and its industrial exploitation, between Frederick Law Olmsted's Reservation and the Love Canal.".
- catalog extent "xii, 193 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Imagining Niagara.".
- catalog identifier "0870239163 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Imagining Niagara.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Imagining Niagara.".
- catalog spatial "Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)".
- catalog spatial "Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.)".
- catalog subject "971.3/39 20".
- catalog subject "F127.N8 M43 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Imagining Niagara -- 2. The Distant Niagara -- 3. Death at Niagara -- 4. The Nature of Niagara -- 5. The Future at Niagara.".
- catalog title "Imagining Niagara : the meaning and making of Niagara Falls / Patrick V. McGreevy.".
- catalog type "text".