Literature and architecture in early modern England
By: Anne M. Myers
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781421407227; 9781421408002
Subjects: Architecture and literature; English literature; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture; title: Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem; title: Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow; title: Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history; title: Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries; title: Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture; title: Coda. St. Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.