Author: Malcolm Andrews
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources and features some of the key makers of the “South Country” rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster, and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape—indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted “the very essence of England” itself. As A Sweet View makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.
A Sweet View
Author: Malcolm Andrews
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources and features some of the key makers of the “South Country” rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster, and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape—indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted “the very essence of England” itself. As A Sweet View makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources and features some of the key makers of the “South Country” rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster, and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape—indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted “the very essence of England” itself. As A Sweet View makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.
Impressions and Opinions
Author: George Moore
Publisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Alphabetical Finding List
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Feminist Writers of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Samuel Alfred Richards
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Englishwoman's Legal Guide
Author: Wilfrid Hooper
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The Cambridge History of the American Essay
Author: Christy Wampole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009080415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, from New Criticism to New Journalism: The story of the American essay is told here, beginning in the early eighteenth century and ending with the vibrant, heterogeneous scene of contemporary essayistic writing. The essay in the US has taken many forms: nature writing, travel writing, the genteel tradition, literary criticism, hybrid genres such as the essay film and the photo essay. Across genres and identities, this volume offers a stirring account of American essayism into the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009080415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, from New Criticism to New Journalism: The story of the American essay is told here, beginning in the early eighteenth century and ending with the vibrant, heterogeneous scene of contemporary essayistic writing. The essay in the US has taken many forms: nature writing, travel writing, the genteel tradition, literary criticism, hybrid genres such as the essay film and the photo essay. Across genres and identities, this volume offers a stirring account of American essayism into the twenty-first century.
Tragedy in the Victorian Novel
Author: Jeannette King
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521216708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
How does one dominant literary genre fall into decline, to be superseded by another? The classic instance is the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century, and how it came to embody the tragic vision of life which had previously been the domain of drama. Dr King focuses on three novelists, George Eliot. Thomas Hardy and Henry James. All three, while trying to offer a realistic picture of life in prose narrative, wrote with the concept of tragedy clearly in mind. The concern was widespread, and Victorian literary critics found themselves discussing the problem of how one might reconcile concepts as dissimilar as tragedy and realism. Their criticism provides Dr King with her starting point. Dr King examines the work of her three authors in relation to the large concepts of traditional tragic thought, and also examines how the form of specific novels was affected by their differing ideas of tragedy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521216708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
How does one dominant literary genre fall into decline, to be superseded by another? The classic instance is the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century, and how it came to embody the tragic vision of life which had previously been the domain of drama. Dr King focuses on three novelists, George Eliot. Thomas Hardy and Henry James. All three, while trying to offer a realistic picture of life in prose narrative, wrote with the concept of tragedy clearly in mind. The concern was widespread, and Victorian literary critics found themselves discussing the problem of how one might reconcile concepts as dissimilar as tragedy and realism. Their criticism provides Dr King with her starting point. Dr King examines the work of her three authors in relation to the large concepts of traditional tragic thought, and also examines how the form of specific novels was affected by their differing ideas of tragedy.
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The Publishers Weekly
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
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