Title & Author:

Nature and the Victorian imagination / edited by U.C. Knoepflmacher and G.B. Tennyson.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1977.

Description:

xxiii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[1.] The mind's eye: Images of nature: a photo-essay / Charles Millard -- [2.] The taming of space: Felicitous space: the cottage controversy / George H. Ford -- Imagination in the suburb / Walter L. Creese -- The domestication of nature: five houses in the Lake District / Ellen E. Frank -- [3.] Explorations: The Arctic sublime / Chauncey C. Loomis -- Mid-Victorians amongst the Alps / David Robertson -- High and low: Ruskin and the novelists / George Levine -- "A surprising transformation": Dickens and the hearth / Robert L. Patten -- The interior garden and John Stuart Mill / Andrew Griffin -- [4.] Systems of knowledge: The rich economy of nature: chemistry in the nineteenth century / Trevor H. Levere -- Concepts of physical nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson / David B. Wilson -- The human significance of biology: Carpenter, Darwin, and the vera causa / Roger Smith -- The humanist at bay: the Arnold-Huxley debate / R.H. Super -- A science against sciences: Ruskin's floral mythology / Frederick Kirchhoff -- "The perfection of species" and Hardy's Tess / Bruce Johnson -- [5.] Redefinitions: Victorian landscape painting: a change in outlook / W.F. Axton -- "Half sick of shadows": the aesthetic dialogue in pre-Raphaelite painting / Martin Meisel -- The rainbow: a problematic image / George P. Landow -- The sacramental imagination / G.B. Tennyson -- Mutations of the Wordsworthian child of nature / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Browning and the altered romantic landscape / Lawrence Poston III -- Nature and the linguistic moment / J. Hillis Miller -- [6.] Toward the twentieth century: Lawrence's vital source: nature and character in Thomas Hardy / John Paterson -- "That strange abstraction, nature": T.S. Eliot's Victorian inheritance / A. Walton Litz -- Afterglow and aftermath / the editors.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

0520032292
9780520032293

Subject:

Ruskin, John 1819-1900
Englisch, ...
Aesthetics, British 19th century.
Nature (Aesthetics) History 19th century.
English literature 19th century History and criticism.
Science Great Britain History 19th century.
Nature photography History 19th century.
Painting, Victorian Great Britain.
Esthetics history
Nature
Paintings history
Literature history
Science history
Esthétique britannique 19e siècle.
Nature (Esthétique) Histoire 19e siècle.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie de la nature Histoire 19e siècle.
Peinture victorienne Grande-Bretagne.
Science
Painting, Victorian
Nature photography
Nature (Aesthetics)
English literature
Aesthetics, British
Kultur
Literatur
Natur
Science Great Britain 19th century.
Great Britain
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Nature photography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Essays.

Added entries:

Knoepflmacher, U. C., editor.
Tennyson, G. B., editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 31701
Call No.: W8459; ID:88-B3497
Status: Available