Glancing Visions

How the “glance” rather than the “gaze” in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism   The sweeping vantages that typify American landscape painting from the nineteenth century by Thomas Cole and other members of the Hudson River School are often interpreted for their geopolitical connotations, as visual attempts to tame the wild, alleviating fears of a savage frontier through views that subdue the landscape to the eye. But many literary figures of the era disp