Tides in English Taste (1619-1800). Volume 1 / B. Sprague Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, B. Sprague, author.

Series:

Tides in English Taste (1619-1800) ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although the history of literature and the history of art are so closely interwoven as to be indispensable to one another, it has been extremely difficult for readers of literature to gain any knowledge of the arts of design because the information is widely scattered in books written by specialists for specialists. Recognizing this fact, B. Sprague Allen has taken a corner of the vast field and discussed the development of taste in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His book is an account of taste, that is, the likes and dislikes of the men who built and furnished houses and laid out gardens in this period of English culture. Their taste is revealed to a hitherto unrecognized extent in diaries, letters, essays, and plays, and is an index of English civilization. Allen has thus been concerned with the whole complex pattern of living and has made us think and feel and see with the faculties of the cultivated Englishman of two or three hundred years ago.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION. THE WAYWARDNESS OF ELIZABETHAN CLASSICISM

I. THE NEW VISION OF ORDER

II. THE BUILDING MANIA OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

III. THE REFLECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS IN LETTERS

IV. SATIRIC CRITICISM OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

V. THE REVOLUTION IN GARDEN DESIGN

VI. THE PROSPECT, THE FLOWER GARDEN, AND THE STAGE GARDEN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

VII. THE FORMAL GARDEN IN THE AGE OF DISCIPLINE

VIII. TOWN PLANNING IN THE AGE OF DISCIPLINE

IX. EUROPE'S DISCOVERY OF THE FAR EAST

X. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND BY ORIENTAL ART

XI. THE RIVALRY BETWEEN INDIAN CHINTZ AND ENGLISH TEXTILES

XII. CLASSICAL CRITICISM OF ORIENTAL ART

NOTES

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-72986-2

OCLC:

979743587