Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture

2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-02000-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Twyning, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of figures Introduction: Reproducing Englishness In Pursuit of the English Style: the Allure of the Gothic Gothic Adaptations and Reprisals Tracing the Wild Man in Shakespeare's England The Estate and Landscape's Nation Thomas Hardy's Architecture of History Dracula and Gothic Tourism Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN TWYNING is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of London Dispossessed.