Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Harris, AlexandraUUUU
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Alexandra Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. She examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well-known and some almost forgotten.
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Imprint:
London Thames &
Collation:
320 pages colour illustrations
Contents:
Prologue : in England -- Ancient and modern -- Concrete and curlicues -- A Georgian revival -- Victoriana -- From purity to a pageant -- A break for refreshments -- The canon revised -- The weather forecast -- Village life -- Parish news -- Variations on a view -- An hour in the garden -- Dreaming of Manderley -- House building -- Literary architecture -- Afterword : new maps
ISBN:
9780500289723 (paperback)
Dewey class:
820.9 ROM
Local class:
820.9
Language:
English
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BRN:
81229
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