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Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
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Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / Alexandra Harris.
ISBN
9780500251713
0500251711
Published
New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.
Physical Description
320 p. : ill. (chiefly col) ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and index.
Contents
Prologue : in England
Ancient and modern
Concrete and curlicues
A Georgian revival
Victoriana
From purity to a pageant
A break for refreshments
The canon revised
The weather forecast
Village life
Parish news
Variations on a view
An hour in the garden
Dreaming of Manderley
House building
Literary architecture
Afterword : new maps.
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