Word: unfallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that was not corrupt, not worn by labor, tainted by inequality or poisoned by greed. This myth of paradise-on-the-frontier pervaded 18th century ideas about America and, by the mid-19th, had become one of the chief regulating ideas of America's discourse about itself: "That unfallen, western world," as Melville wrote in Moby Dick, "which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god." It deeply affected painting as well as literature, and those influences are the subject of Art Historian Barbara...