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A Sweet View The Making of an English Idyll.
From country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss.A Sweet View explores how writers and artists in the nineteenth century shaped the English countryside as a partly imaginary idyll, with its distinctive repertoire of ideal...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books, Limited,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: The Picturesque and English Scenery, 1770-1860
- 1: The Picturesque and the Promotion of English Landscape
- 2: Roughness, Neglect and Constable's 'Genuine English Scenery'
- 3: The Domestication of Picturesque England, 1800-1860
- Part II: Painting and Writing English Scenery
- 4: 'Going-in-itiveness': Samuel Palmer's English Pastoral
- 5: Myles Birket Foster and the Surrey Scene
- 6: Writing English Scenery: Richard Jefferies
- Part III: 'The Very Essence of England'
- 7: English Rural Scenery: A Repertoire
- 8: The Country Cottage
- Epilogue: 'A Haunt of Ancient Peace'
- Notes and References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index of Persons and Pictures