A Sweet View : The Making of an English Idyll
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| Autore: |
Andrews Malcolm
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| Titolo: |
A Sweet View : The Making of an English Idyll
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , 2022 |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.932173409034 |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Picturesque and English Scenery, 1770-1860 -- 1: The Picturesque and the Promotion of English Landscape -- 2: Roughness, Neglect and Constable's 'Genuine English Scenery' -- 3: The Domestication of Picturesque England, 1800-1860 -- Part II: Painting and Writing English Scenery -- 4: 'Going-in-itiveness': Samuel Palmer's English Pastoral -- 5: Myles Birket Foster and the Surrey Scene -- 6: Writing English Scenery: Richard Jefferies -- Part III: 'The Very Essence of England' -- 7: English Rural Scenery: A Repertoire -- 8: The Country Cottage -- Epilogue: 'A Haunt of Ancient Peace' -- Notes and References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index of Persons and Pictures. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | A Sweet View |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Sweet View |
| ISBN: | 1-78914-497-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824166203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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