Main entry:

Morrissey, Lee.

Title & Author:

From the temple to the castle : an architectural history of British literature, 1660-1760 / Lee Morrissey.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Description:

xiii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
Introduction: On Literature and Architecture -- 1. "Truth Is a Just and Naturall Proportion": Milton, Wotton, and Renaissance Architectural Theory -- 2. "Against the Too Exact Observance of the Rules": Vanbrugh's Political Struggle over Aesthetic Form -- 3. "The Utmost Grace of Uniformity": Pope's Anglo-Palladian Epic -- 4. "Approach and Read the Stone": Toward an Archaeology of Gray's "Elegy" -- 5. "To Invent in Art and Folly": Walpole's Castle of Otranto -- Coda: On Literary and Architectural Form.

Summary:

"By examining the connections between literature and architecture in the work of writers and by viewing architecture in literary terms, Lee Morrissey traces a narrative of cultural change in the Augustan Age and beyond."--BOOK JACKET. "Each chapter establishes a connection with architecture in the careers of an author and then describes how a principal text - Paradise Lost, The Provok'd Wife, An Essay on Man, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and The Castle of Otranto - focuses the literary and historical issues of the period in architectural terms."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0813918995 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813918990 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

English literature 18th century History and criticism.
Architecture and literature History 18th century.
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Architecture and literature History 17th century.
Aesthetics, Modern 18th century.
Aesthetics, Modern 17th century.
Aesthetics, British.
Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique.
Architecture et littérature 18e siècle Histoire.
Architecture et littérature 17e siècle Histoire.
Architecture et littérature Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture et littérature Histoire 17e siècle.
Esthétique 18e siècle.
Esthétique 17e siècle.
Esthétique britannique.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Architecture and literature.
English literature.
English literature Early modern.
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Englisch
Kunst
Literatur
Schriftsteller
Ästhetik
Littérature anglaise Architecture Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Geschichte 1660-1760.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203683
Call No.: PR448.A75 M67 1999
Status: Available