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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 254 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781527512887 1527512886 |