God's architect [[electronic resource] ] : Pugin and the building of romantic Britain / / Rosemary Hill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780642103321
• Autore: Hill Rosemary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-35179-6; 9786612351792; 0-300-15575-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (617 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.92
• Soggetti: Architects - Great Britain; Gothic revival (Architecture) - Great Britain
• 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: ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Prologue""; ""Part One""; ""1 Auguste Charles Pugin""; ""2 Catherine Welby""; ""3 The Microcosm of London: 1802 to 1812""; ""Part Two""; ""4 Waverley: 1812 to 1821""; ""5 â€?My first designâ€?: 1821 to 1824""; ""6 Metropolitan Improvements: 1824 to 1826""; ""7 The Kingâ€?s Pleasure: 1827""; ""8 Beginning the World: October 1827 to July 1831""; ""9 A Very Short Courtship: July 1831 to May 1832""; ""10 â€?Gothic for everâ€?: June 1832 to April 1833""; ""Part Three""; ""11 Beginning the World Again: May 1833 to October 1834""; ""12 The New World Begun: October 1834 to May 1835""""13 Salisbury and Sarum: Summer 1835""; ""14 Contrasts: Summer 1835 to August 1836""; ""Part Four""; ""15 Entre Deux Guerres: Autumn 1836""; ""16 Romantic Catholics""; ""17 The Professor of Ecclesiastical Antiquities: 1837""; ""18 â€?My first churchâ€?: July 1837 to May 1838""; ""19 Birmingham and Oxford: May 1838 to May 1839""; ""20 Young Victorians: May 1839 to February 1840""; ""21 A Vision for England: March to December 1840""; ""22 True Principles and Tract XC: 1841""; ""23 Reunion and Division: 1842""; ""24 A Shift in the Wind: January to September 1843""""25 The Grange, Ramsgate: September to December 1843""; ""26 A Return of Grief: January to August 1844""; ""Part Five""; ""27 The New House and the ; New Palace: Autumn and Winter 1844""; ""28 The New Life: December 1844 to April 1845""; ""29 A Battle of Wills: May to October 1845""; ""30 Entre Deux Femmes: October 1845 to June 1846""; ""31 Improving the Taste of Young England: June 1846 to February 1847""; ""32 The House of Lords: February to Autumn 1847""; ""33 Many Hands: Autumn 1847""; ""34 Helen Lumsdaine: December 1847 to May 1848""; ""35 â€?One affectionate heartâ€?: May to 10 August 1848""""Part Six""; ""36 â€?A first rate Gothic womanâ€?: 11 August 1848 to August 1849""; ""37 Design for the Middling Sort: September 1849 to January 1850""; ""38 The High Victorians: 1850""; ""39 The Great Exhibition: January to October 1851""; ""40 The Whole Machinery of the Clock: October 1851 to February 1852""; ""41 Bethlem and Ramsgate: 26 February to September 1852""; ""Epilogue""; ""Abbreviations""; ""List of Works""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""