Literature and architecture in early modern England / Anne M. Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Anne M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Architecture and literature--History--16th century.

Architecture and literature.

Architecture and literature--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect.

Contents:

Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture

Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem

Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow

Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history

Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries

Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture

Coda. St. Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781421408002

1421408007

OCLC:

823896934

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access