Paradise preserved : recreations of Eden in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Max F. Schulz.

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Schulz, Max F.

Title & Author:

Paradise preserved : recreations of Eden in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Max F. Schulz.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Description:

xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-361) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Introduction: the continuing mystique of Paradise; Part I. Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden Paradises: 1. Gardening Lords; Part II. Romantic Paradisal Bowers, Valleys, and Islands: 2. Blake and the unencing dialectic of Earth and Eden; 3. Coleridge and the enchantments of earthly paradise; 4. Wordsworth and the Axis Mundi of Grasmere; 5. Byron's and Shelley's Hesperian Islands; 6. Bewick's, Constable's, and Palmer's Locus Paradisus; 7. Crabbe's and Clare's enclosed vales; Part III. Victorian Heavenly Cities and Blessed Damozels: 8. From natural landscape to controlled environment; 9. Paxton's Hyde Park Crystal Palace; 10. Turner's fabled Atlantis: London, Venice and Carthage as paradisal cityscape; 11. Tennyson's celestial Camelot; 12. Mid-Victorian London and the angel in the house; 13. Pre-Raphaelite tainted gardens, lost ladies, and intruders on the green; 14. Rossetti's blessed Eve and her daughters; 15. Whistler's peacock room: a curvilinear Locus Spiritus for the Times; Notes' Index.

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ISBN:

0521301734
9780521301732

Subject:

Arts, English 18th century.
Arts, English 19th century.
Paradise in art.
Arts, English.
Paradise in literature.
English poetry 19th century History and criticism.
Arts anglais.
Paradis dans l'art.
Arts Angleterre 18e siècle.
Arts Angleterre 19e siècle.
Arts anglais 18e siècle.
Arts anglais 19e siècle.
Kunst.
Paradijs.
Gedichten.
Engels.
English visual arts, 1700-1900. Special subjects: Paradise - Critical studies
Poetry in English, 1800-1900. Special subjects: Paradise - Critical studies

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 96315
Call No.: ID:86-B19036
Status: Available

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