The Politics of the picturesque : literature, landscape, and aesthetics since 1770 /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Copley, Stephen, 1954- Garside, Peter. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
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| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction Stephen Copley and Peter Garside
- 1. Picturesque landscaping and estate management: Uvedale Price and Nathaniel Kent at Foxley
- 2. William Gilpin and the black lead mine
- 3. The ruined abbey: Picturesque and Gothic values
- 4. The Picturesque and ready-to-wear femininity
- 5. 'The coquetry of nature': politics and the picturesque in women's fiction
- 6. Picturesque figure and landscape: Meg Merrilies and the gypsies
- 7. Romantic explorers and picturesque travellers
- 8. The legacy of the Picturesque: landscape, property and the ruin
- 9. The Picturesque and the sublime: two worldscapes
- 10. Agrarians against the Picturesque: ultra-radicalism and the revolutionary politics of land
- 11. The Chartist Picturesque
- 12. The metropolitan Picturesque
- Index