Romantic moderns
Subtitle: English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
By: Alexandra Harris
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780500251713
Subjects: Romanticism in art; English literature; Literature and society; Modernism (Art); History and criticism; Romanticism; Art and society; Modernism (Literature); History
Description: Alexandra Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the Modern period. She examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : in England --; title: Ancient and modern --; title: Concrete and curlicues --; title: A Georgian revival --; title: Victoriana --; title: From purity to a pageant --; title: A break for refreshments --; title: The canon revised --; title: The weather forecast --; title: Village life --; title: Parish news --; title: Variations on a view --; title: An hour in the garden --; title: Dreaming of Manderley --; title: House building --; title: Literary architecture --; title: Afterword : new maps.