Literature and architecture in early modern England / / Anne M. Myers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524871003321
• Autore: Myers Anne M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013
• ISBN: 9781421408002; 1421408007
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/357
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Architecture and literature - History - 16th century; Architecture and literature - History - 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture -- Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem -- Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow -- Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history -- Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries -- Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture -- Coda. St. Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.
• Sommario/riassunto: Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect.