Literature and architecture in early modern England
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
c2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422995706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
