Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture [electronic resource] /
Twyning, John,1952-author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reproducing Englishness; 1 In Pursuit of an English Style: The Allure of Gothic; 2 Gothic Adaptations and Reprisals; 3 Tracing the Wild Man in Shakespeare's England; 4 The English Country Estate and the Landscape's Nation; 5 Thomas Hardy's Architecture of History; 6 Dracula and Gothic Tourism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Color Plates
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Arts.
Literature.
Architecture.
British literature.
Fiction.
Arts.
Literature, general.
Architecture, general.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Building Types and Functions.