Main entry:

Hultzsch, Anne, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture, travellers and writers : constructing histories of perception 1640-1950 / Anne Hultzsch.

Publication:

London : LEGENDA, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2014.

Description:

xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Studies in comparative literature ; 26

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Rendering Buildings into Words: Pevsner and Evelyn 13 -- Writing The Buildings of England 14 -- Recording in the Diary 29 -- 2 Ordering the Unfamiliar: Bargrave and the Early Grand Tour 54 -- Curious Words, Things, and Images 55 -- Ordering the Cabinet of Travel 65 -- Describing Unfamiliar Places 71 -- 3 Reading Books: Defoe, Smollett, and the Country-House Guidebook 87 -- Robinson Crusoe's Lists 88 -- Domestic Circuits 95 -- Smollett's Letters 107 -- 4 Thinking in Metaphor: Evelyn and Ruskin 129 -- Understanding through Metaphor 130 -- Metaphors of Perception 142 -- Attribute and Object 146 -- 5 Looking through the Tens: Evelyn, Goethe, and Burckhardt 153 -- Evelyn and the Microscope 154 -- Goethe and the Textbook 163 -- Burckhardt and the Photograph 177.

Summary:

Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it is language, the description of architecture, which offers answers to such questions. The words authors use to transcribe what they see for the reader to re-imagine offer glimpses at modes of perception specific to one moment, place and person. Hultzsch constructs an intriguing patchwork of local and often fragmentary narratives discussing texts as diverse as the 17th-century diary of John Evelyn, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and an 1855 art guide by Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt. Further authors considered include 17th-century collector John Bargrave, 18th-century novelist Tobias Smollett, poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, critic John Ruskin as well as the 20th-century architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781907975639
1907975632

Subject:

Architecture History.
Architecture and literature.
Travel writing.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture et littérature.
Voyage Art d'écrire.
Architecture.
Reiseliteratur
Bildungsreise
Architektur

Form/genre:

travelers’ writings.
travelog (performed works genre)
Travel writing.
History.
Récits de voyages.

Added entries:

Studies in comparative literature (Oxford, England) ; 26.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286740
Call No.: BIB 227211
Status: Available