Queen Anne and the arts / edited by Cedric D. Reverand II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reverand, Cedric D., author, editor.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714--Art patronage.

Anne.

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714.

Art patronage.

Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714.

Great Britain.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishin Group, Inc., [2015]

Contents:

"Praise the patroness of arts" / James A. Winn

"She will not be that tyrant they desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne / Nicholas Seager

Queen Anne, patron of poets? / Juan Christian Pellicer

The moral in the material: numismatics and identity in Evelyn, Addison, and Pope / Barbara M. Benedict

Mockery: Queen Anne's era and the cacophony of calm / Kevin L. Cope

Great Anna's Chaucer: Pope's January and May and the logic of settlement / Philip Smallwood

The diverting muse: miscellanies and miscellany culture in Queen Anne's reign / Abigail Williams

Nicholas Rowe's the fair penitent and the performance of personal space in eighteenth-century London / Julia H. Fawcett

The theater in the age of Queen Anne: the case of George Farquhar / Brian Corman

Isaac Watts's occasional conformities / Jayne Lewis

Musical politics in George Granville's the British enchanters / Amanda Eubanks Winkler

"Sing great Anna's matchless name": images of Queen Anne in the court ode / Estelle Murphy

Nicholas Hawksmoor: the other English baroque architect / Cedric D. Reverand II.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index.

ISBN:

9781611486315

1611486319

OCLC:

884480359