The Politics of the Picturesque

Literature, Landscape and Aesthetics Since 1770
Herausgeber: Copley, Stephen; Garside, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521131100
• ISBN-10: 0521131103
• Artikelnr.: 28532951

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction Stephen Copley and Peter Garside
1. Picturesque landscaping and estate management: Uvedale Price and Nathaniel Kent at Foxley Stephen Daniels and Charles Watkins
2. William Gilpin and the black lead mine Stephen Copley
3. The ruined abbey: Picturesque and Gothic values Michael Charlesworth
4. The Picturesque and ready-to-wear femininity Ann Bermingham
5. 'The coquetry of nature': politics and the picturesque in women's fiction Vivien Jones
6. Picturesque figure and landscape: Meg Merrilies and the gypsies Peter Garside
7. Romantic explorers and picturesque travellers John Whale
8. The legacy of the Picturesque: landscape, property and the ruin Raimonda Modiano
9. The Picturesque and the sublime: two worldscapes David Punter
10. Agrarians against the Picturesque: ultra-radicalism and the revolutionary politics of land David Worrall
11. The Chartist Picturesque Anne Janowitz
12. The metropolitan Picturesque Malcolm Andrews
Index.