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Place-making for the Imagination: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
Author: Marion Harney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1317080491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste' created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a collusion of the historic, the visual and the sensory. Above all, it expresses the inseparable integration of house and setting, and of the architecture with the collection, all specific to one individual, a unity that is relevant today to all architects, landscape designers and garden and country house enthusiasts. Avoiding the straightforward architectural description of previous texts, this beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stimulate 'The Pleasures of the Imagination' articulated in the series of essays by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) published in the Spectator (1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are not based around architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics theories, antiquarianism and matters of 'Taste'. Using architectural quotations from Gothic tombs, Walpole expresses the mythical idea that it was based on monastic foundations with visual links to significant historical figures and events in English history. The book explains for the first time the reasons for its creation, which have never been adequately explored or fully understood in previous publications. The book develops an argument that Walpole was the first to define theories on Gothic architecture in his Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71). Similarly innovative, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1780) is one of the first to attempt a history and theory of gardening. The research uniquely evaluates how these theories found expression at Strawberry Hill. This reassessment of the villa and its associated l
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism - Third Edition
Author: Joseph Black
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2017-12-30
Total Pages: 1100
ISBN-13: 1770485821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to matters such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. A two-volume Concise Edition and a one-volume Compact Edition are also available.
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume B, 3e – Modified eBook UK Edition
Author: Joseph Black et al.
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 1800
ISBN-13: 1554815207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Modified eBook version of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume B, 3rd edition omits in-copyright readings that are found in the print book. This ebook is available for purchase in the UK and select international markets. The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the Concise Edition nevertheless provides substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical authors and a sampling of lesser-known works. With an unparalleled selection of illustrations and of contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations, these volumes provide concise yet extraordinarily wide-ranging coverage for British Literature survey courses. New to this volume are Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; new authors include Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Tomson Highway, Derek Walcott, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The third edition now also offers substantially expanded representation of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh literatures, as well as contextual materials on Gothic literature, Modernism, and World War II. Material that no longer appears in the bound book may in most cases be found on the companion website; many larger works are also available in separate volumes that may at the instructor’s request be bundled together with the anthology at no extra cost to the student.
Georgian Gothic
Author: Peter Lindfield
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1783271272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher:
Published: 1811
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bibliomania; Or, Book-madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease. In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher:
Published: 1842
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Luxury
Author: Peter McNeil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199663246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess, extravagance, and indulgence through the centuries.
Bibliomania; Or Book Madness: a Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts ... by ... Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher:
Published: 1811
Total Pages: 814
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts
Author: David Punter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 1474432379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Gothic is a contested and complicated phenomenon, extending over many centuries and across all the arts. In The Edinburgh Companion to the Gothic and the Arts, the range of essays run from medieval architecture and design to contemporary gaming and internet fiction; from classical painting to the modern novel; from ballet and dance to contemporary Goth music. The contributors include many of the best-known critics of the Gothic (e.g., Hogle, Punter, Spooner, Bruhm) as well as newer names such as Kirk and Round. The editor has put all these contributors in touch with each other in the preparation of their essays in order to ensure the maximum benefit to the reader by producing a well-integrated book which will prove much more than a collection of disparate essays, but rather a distinctive contribution to a field.
