Title & Author:

The Politics of the picturesque : literature, landscape, and aesthetics since 1770 / edited by Stephen Copley and Peter Garside.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Description:

xiv, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Essays based on papers delivered at a conference on "Romanticism and the picturesque", University of Wales Conference Centre, July 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Picturesque landscaping and estate management : Uvedale Price and Nathaniel Kent at Foxley / Stephen Daniels and Charles Watkins -- William Gilpin and the black-lead mine / Stephen Copley -- The ruined abbey : picturesque and Gothic values / Michael Charlesworth -- The picturesque and ready-to-wear femininity / Ann Bermingham -- 'The coquetry of nature' : politics and the picturesque in women's fiction / Vivien Jones -- Picturesque figure and landscape : Meg Merrilies and the gypsies / Peter Garside -- Romantics, explorers and picturesque travellers / John Whale -- The legacy of the picturesque : landscape, property and the ruin / Raimonda Modiano -- The picturesque and the sublime : two worldscapes / David Punter -- Agrarians against the picturesque : ultra-radicalism and the revolutionary politics of land / David Worrall -- The Chartist picturesque / Anne Janowitz -- The metropolitan picturesque / Malcolm Andrews.

Summary:

New essays on 18th and 19th century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521441137
9780521441131
9780521131100
0521131103

Subject:

Picturesque, The Congresses.
Aesthetics, Modern 18th century Congresses.
Aesthetics, Modern 19th century Congresses.
Pittoresque Congrès.
Esthétique 18e siècle Congrès.
Esthétique 19e siècle Congrès.
08.41 esthetics.
20.21 iconographic themes.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Modern
Picturesque, The
Das Malerische
Ästhetik
Kongress
Het Pittoreske.
Esthetica.
Landschapschilderkunst.
Art et littérature Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle Congrès.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Thèmes, motifs Congrès.
Pittoresque Dans la littérature Congrès.
Pittoresque dans l'art Congrès.
Esthétique moderne Congrès.
Romantisme Congrès.
Paysage Dans la littérature Congrès.
Nature (esthétique)
Littérature Histoire et critique.
Cardiff Congrès 1991.
Aesthetics

Form/genre:

Kongress Gregynog 1991.
Conference publications.
Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings
Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Copley, Stephen, 1954-
Garside, Peter.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189720
Call No.: ID BH301.P53 P65; ID:95-B2728
Status: Available