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The invention of northern aesthetics in 18th-century English literature /

Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain's self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a 'Northern' aesthetics to challenge th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bezrucka, Yvonne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain's self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a 'Northern' aesthetics to challenge the European yoke, this book explores the roots of British Romanticism and a newly created past. Literature, the arts, architecture, and gardening all contributed to the creation of this national, 'enlightened', Northern cultural environment, with its emphasis on a home-grown legal tradition, on a heroic Celtic past.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 254 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781527512887
1527512886