Building romanticism : literature and architecture in nineteenth-century Britain

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Building romanticism : literature and architecture in nineteenth-century Britain

Title remainder

literature and architecture in nineteenth-century Britain

Statement of responsibility

Nicole Reynolds

Creator

• Reynolds, Nicole

Subject

• Architecture and literature
• Architecture and literature
• Architecture and literature -- History -- 19th century
• Architecture and literature -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century
• Architecture in literature
• Architecture in literature
• Architecture in literature
• Architecture in literature
• Architektur -- Englische Literatur -- Geschichte 19. Jh
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Englische Literatur -- Architektur -- Geschichte 19. Jh
• Englische Literatur -- Romantik
• 1800 - 1899
• English literature
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Great Britain
• Great Britain
• History
• History
• Romanticism
• Romanticism
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• English literature

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• Building Romanticism sets the literary culture of Romantic Britain within the context of the period's architectural productions in order to recover a relationship between these arts that, though deeply valued by writers and architects of the day, has been neglected by modern scholars in both fields. Toward this goal, Nicole Reynolds explores the centrality of architecture and architectural tropes to Romanticism's dramatic reconceptualization of the individual subject and of the world that subject inhabits
• Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class mobility, the individual's uncertain place in history, challenges to the British national character and to the project of nation building, and the very form and function of art itself. By tracing the reception of Romantic topoi--rhetorical and literal common places--through the nineteenth century, this book explores how Victorians remodeled Romanticism, its ideological preoccupations and cultural artifacts, according to their own era's social agendas. --Book Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PR457

LC item number

.R4557 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography