Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture

Informationen zum Autor JOHN TWYNING is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of London Dispossessed. Klappentext An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts! each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of figures Introduction: Reproducing Englishness In Pursuit of the English Style: the Allure of the Gothic Gothic Adaptations and Reprisals Tracing the Wild Man in Shakespeare's England The Estate and Landscape's Nation Thomas Hardy's Architecture of History Dracula and Gothic Tourism Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements List of figures Introduction: Reproducing Englishness In Pursuit of the English Style: the Allure of the Gothic Gothic Adaptations and Reprisals Tracing the Wild Man in Shakespeare's England The Estate and Landscape's Nation Thomas Hardy's Architecture of History Dracula and Gothic Tourism Notes Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J Twyning, J. Twyning, John Twyning, John Twyning Twyning
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9781349286065
• ISBN: 978-1-349-28606-5
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Language, Discourse, Society; Language, Discourse, Society
• Categorie: Narrativa; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie; B, Literature, Architecture, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Architectural structure & design, Arts, Architecture, general, Literature: history & criticism, buildings, Literature, general, European Literature, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Building construction & materials, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Building Types and Functions