Main entry:

Reynolds, Nicole, 1967-

Title & Author:

Building romanticism : literature and architecture in nineteenth-century Britain / Nicole Reynolds.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.

Description:

viii, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: romanticism's mansion of many apartments -- Keats's magic casements and the material sublime -- The mystery of the boudoir: privacy, literacy, and the rights of woman -- Cottage industry: the ladies of Llangollen, domestic ideology, and the symbolic capital of the cottage ornée -- Sir John Soane's House-Museum and romantic nostalgia -- Afterword: romanticism's theater of the mind's eye.

Summary:

Building Romanticism sets the literary culture of Romantic Britain within the context of the period's architectural productions in order to recover a relationship between these arts that, though deeply valued by writers and architects of the day, has been neglected by modern scholars in both fields. Toward this goal, Nicole Reynolds explores the centrality of architecture and architectural tropes to Romanticism's dramatic reconceptualization of the individual subject and of the world that subject inhabits.
Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class mobility, the individual's uncertain place in history, challenges to the British national character and to the project of nation building, and the very form and function of art itself. By tracing the reception of Romantic topoi--rhetorical and literal common places--through the nineteenth century, this book explores how Victorians remodeled Romanticism, its ideological preoccupations and cultural artifacts, according to their own era's social agendas. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9780472117314 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472117319 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

English literature 19th century History and criticism.
Architecture in literature.
Architecture and literature History 19th century.
Romanticism Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Architecture dans la littérature.
Architecture et littérature Histoire 19e siècle.
Romantisme Grande-Bretagne.
21.62 history of architecture.
18.05 English literature.
Architecture and literature.
English literature.
Romanticism.
Literature.
Architecture.
Englische Literatur Architektur Geschichte 19. Jh.
Architektur Englische Literatur Geschichte 19. Jh.
Englische Literatur Romantik.
Architecture and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Engelsk litteratur 1800-talet historia.
Arkitektur i litteraturen.
Arkitektur i litteraturen Storbritannien historia 1800-talet.
Romantiken Storbritannien.
Great Britain.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275438
Call No.: BIB 209676
Status: Available