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God's architect : Pugin and the building of romantic Britain /
God's Architect is the first modern biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), one of Britain's greatest architects. The author draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate Pugin's life and work as architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer, as we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2009, ©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue
- Part One
- 1 Auguste Charles Pugin
- 2 Catherine Welby
- 3 The Microcosm of London: 1802 to 1812
- Part Two
- 4 Waverley: 1812 to 1821
- 5 �My first design�: 1821 to 1824
- 6 Metropolitan Improvements: 1824 to 1826
- 7 The King�s Pleasure: 1827
- 8 Beginning the World: October 1827 to July 1831
- 9 A Very Short Courtship: July 1831 to May 1832
- 10 �Gothic for ever�: June 1832 to April 1833
- Part Three
- 11 Beginning the World Again: May 1833 to October 1834
- 12 The New World Begun: October 1834 to May 183513 Salisbury and Sarum: Summer 1835
- 14 Contrasts: Summer 1835 to August 1836
- Part Four
- 15 Entre Deux Guerres: Autumn 1836
- 16 Romantic Catholics
- 17 The Professor of Ecclesiastical Antiquities: 1837
- 18 �My first church�: July 1837 to May 1838
- 19 Birmingham and Oxford: May 1838 to May 1839
- 20 Young Victorians: May 1839 to February 1840
- 21 A Vision for England: March to December 1840
- 22 True Principles and Tract XC: 1841
- 23 Reunion and Division: 1842
- 24 A Shift in the Wind: January to September 184325 The Grange, Ramsgate: September to December 1843
- 26 A Return of Grief: January to August 1844
- Part Five
- 27 The New House and the New Palace: Autumn and Winter 1844
- 28 The New Life: December 1844 to April 1845
- 29 A Battle of Wills: May to October 1845
- 30 Entre Deux Femmes: October 1845 to June 1846
- 31 Improving the Taste of Young England: June 1846 to February 1847
- 32 The House of Lords: February to Autumn 1847
- 33 Many Hands: Autumn 1847
- 34 Helen Lumsdaine: December 1847 to May 1848
- 35 �One affectionate heart�: May to 10 August 1848Part Six
- 36 �A first rate Gothic woman�: 11 August 1848 to August 1849
- 37 Design for the Middling Sort: September 1849 to January 1850
- 38 The High Victorians: 1850
- 39 The Great Exhibition: January to October 1851
- 40 The Whole Machinery of the Clock: October 1851 to February 1852
- 41 Bethlem and Ramsgate: 26 February to September 1852
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- List of Works
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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