From the temple to the castle
Subtitle: an architectural history of British literature, 1660-1760
By: Lee Morrissey.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Architecture and literature -- History -- 18th century.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Architecture and literature -- History -- 17th century.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.; Aesthetics, British.
Description: "By examining the connections between literature and architecture in the work of writers and by viewing architecture in literary terms, Lee Morrissey traces a narrative of cultural change in the Augustan Age and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.

"Each chapter establishes a connection with architecture in the careers of an author and then describes how a principal text - Paradise Lost, The Provok'd Wife, An Essay on Man, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and The Castle of Otranto - focuses the literary and historical issues of the period in architectural terms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-172) and index.