Main entry:

Everett, Nigel.

Title & Author:

The Tory view of landscape / Nigel Everett.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1994.

Description:

248 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
1. The Perception of Improvement -- 2. The Whig Idea of Landscape and its Critics -- 3. The Mansion and the Landscape -- 4. 'Benevolent Ornaments' -- 5. 'A Noble Estate' -- 6. The View of Donwell Abbey -- 7. 'A Sort of National Property' -- 8. The Nature of Toryism.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it seemed to many that England was being transformed by various kinds of 'improvements' in agriculture and industry, in gardening and the ornamentation of landscape. Such changes were understood to reflect matters of the greatest importance in the moral, social and political arrangements of the country.
In the area of landscape design, to clear a wood, or plant one, to build a folly or a cottage, to design in the formal style or the picturesque, was to express a political orientation of one kind or another. To choose to employ Capability Brown, Humphry Repton or one of their lesser-known competitors, was to make a statement regarding the history of England, its constitutional organisation and the relationships that ought to exist between its citizens. Although many landowners may have been oblivious to this, there was a large body of critical opinion, poetry, theology and social discourse that offered to inform and correct them.
In this illuminating and stimulating book, Nigel Everett reviews the entire debate, from about 1760 to 1820, emphasising in particular the attempts of various writers to defend a 'traditional' or tory view of the landscape against the aggressive, privatising tendency of improvement.
Challenging the narrow implications of the existing schools of landscape historians - the 'establishment' historians, concerned primarily with currents of 'taste', who ignore the wider issues involved, and the commentators on the Left who have tended to see landscape politics as the politics of class - Everett reveals the history of English landscape as a political struggle between, on the one hand, the mechanical, universal and impersonal - whig - point of view and, on the other, the natural, Christian, particular and organic point of view.

ISBN:

0300059043
9780300059045

Subject:

Tory Party (Great Britain)
Tory Party (Grande-Bretagne)
Conservative Party (Great Britain) History.
Landscapes Political aspects Great Britain History.
Land use Political aspects Great Britain History.
Politics and culture Great Britain History.
Nature Political aspects Great Britain History.
Culture political aspects
Culture history
Paysages Aspect politique Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Utilisation du sol Aspect politique Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Politique et culture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Nature Aspect politique Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
74.74 rural planning.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Civilization.
Historical geography.
Land use Political aspects.
Landscapes Political aspects.
Nature Political aspects.
Politics and culture.
Landschapsbouw.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Conservative Party (Groot-Brittannië)
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
Landscape Political aspects Great Britain History.
Culture Political aspects Great Britain History.
Tories, English
Great Britain Historical geography.
Great Britain Civilization 18th century.
Great Britain Civilization 19th century.
United Kingdom
Grande-Bretagne Géographie historique.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107061
Call No.: ID DA600.E93; ID:94-B2677
Status: Available