Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / Alexandra Harris.
2010
NX543 .H33 2010 (Mapit)
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Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / Alexandra Harris.
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ISBN
9780500251713
0500251711
0500251711
Publication Details
New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.
Language
English
Description
320 p. : ill. (chiefly col) ; 24 cm.
Call Number
NX543 .H33 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9145
Summary
Alexandra Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the Modern period. She examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten.
Note
Alexandra Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the Modern period. She examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue : in England
Ancient and modern
Concrete and curlicues
A Georgian revival
Victoriana
From purity to a pageant
A break for refreshments
The canon revised
The weather forecast
Village life
Parish news
Variations on a view
An hour in the garden
Dreaming of Manderley
House building
Literary architecture
Afterword : new maps.
Ancient and modern
Concrete and curlicues
A Georgian revival
Victoriana
From purity to a pageant
A break for refreshments
The canon revised
The weather forecast
Village life
Parish news
Variations on a view
An hour in the garden
Dreaming of Manderley
House building
Literary architecture
Afterword : new maps.