Author: Sidney K. Robinson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226722511
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.
Inquiry Into the Picturesque
Author: Sidney K. Robinson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226722511
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226722511
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.
An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste
Author: Richard Payne Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A World with a View
Author: Christopher Tunnard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300021578
Category : Landscape
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300021578
Category : Landscape
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
History of Architectural Theory
Author: Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568980102
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568980102
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange
Author: Ronald Paulson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421430967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Originally published in 1995. In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange, Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty—worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's "disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addison's category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange. Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421430967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Originally published in 1995. In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange, Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty—worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's "disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addison's category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange. Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers.
The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Author: Alexander M. Ross
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.
The Politics of the Picturesque
Author: Stephen Copley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521441137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521441137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.
Romanticism : Theory : Gender
Author: Pinkney Tony Pinkney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471676
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An examination of the relationship between romanticism, theory and gender.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471676
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An examination of the relationship between romanticism, theory and gender.
Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812
Author: Zoë Kinsley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351871757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling within Britain became increasingly various owing to improved transport systems and the popularization of numerous tourist spots. Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812 examines women's participation in that burgeoning touristic tradition, considering the ways in which the changing face of British travel and its writing can be traced through the accounts produced by the women who journeyed England, Scotland, and Wales during this important period. This book explores female-authored home tour travel narratives in print, as well as manuscript works that have hitherto been neglected in criticism. Discussing texts produced by authors including Celia Fiennes, Ann Radcliffe and Dorothy Wordsworth alongside the works of lesser-known travellers such as Mary Morgan and Dorothy Richardson, Kinsley considers the construction, and also the destabilization, of gender, class, and national identity through chapters that emphasize the diversity and complexity of this rich body of writings.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351871757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling within Britain became increasingly various owing to improved transport systems and the popularization of numerous tourist spots. Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812 examines women's participation in that burgeoning touristic tradition, considering the ways in which the changing face of British travel and its writing can be traced through the accounts produced by the women who journeyed England, Scotland, and Wales during this important period. This book explores female-authored home tour travel narratives in print, as well as manuscript works that have hitherto been neglected in criticism. Discussing texts produced by authors including Celia Fiennes, Ann Radcliffe and Dorothy Wordsworth alongside the works of lesser-known travellers such as Mary Morgan and Dorothy Richardson, Kinsley considers the construction, and also the destabilization, of gender, class, and national identity through chapters that emphasize the diversity and complexity of this rich body of writings.
Jane Austen's Style
Author: Anne Toner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A new exploration of the innovative features of Jane Austen's style.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A new exploration of the innovative features of Jane Austen's style.