Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / Alexandra Harris.
Harris, Alexandra, 1981-
2010
NX543 .H33 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / Alexandra Harris.
Author Harris, Alexandra, 1981-
ISBN 9780500251713
0500251711
Imprint 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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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.

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