A Sweet View: The Making of an English Idyll - Rilegato

Andrews, Malcolm

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ISBN 10: 1789144981 ISBN 13: 9781789144987

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 2021

Riassunto

<b>From country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss.</b><br> &#160;<br><i>A Sweet View</i> 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 &#8220;South Country&#8221; 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&#8212;indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted &#8220;the very essence of England&#8221; itself. As <i>A Sweet View </i>makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.

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Informazioni sull?autore

<div><b>Malcolm Andrews</b> is professor emeritus of Victorian and visual studies at the University of Kent and was for thirty years the editor of the <i>Dickensian</i>. He is the author of many books, including <i>Landscape and Western Art</i>.</div>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1789144981
• ISBN 13: 9781789144987
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 350
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