02648nam 2200577Ia 450 991052487100332120200520144314.097814214080021421408007(CKB)3170000000060697(EBL)3318643(SSID)ssj0000783665(PQKBManifestationID)11431288(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783665(PQKBWorkID)10761816(PQKB)10319670(MiAaPQ)EBC3318643(OCoLC)823896934(MdBmJHUP)muse18826(EXLCZ)99317000000006069720120330d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiterature and architecture in early modern England /Anne M. Myers1st ed.Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Pressc20131 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781421407227 1421407221 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismArchitecture and literatureHistory16th centuryArchitecture and literatureHistory17th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Architecture and literatureHistoryArchitecture and literatureHistory820.9/357Myers Anne M1115815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910524871003321Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England2642886UNINA