Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape
Author: William Gilpin
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Published: 1808
Total Pages: 236
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Author: William Gilpin
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Published: 1808
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Valerie Derbyshire
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2019-12-04
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1622737466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and a number of visual artists of the eighteenth century with whom she had connections. By exploring these associations with artists such as George Smith of Chichester, George Romney, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith and Emma Smith, the book demonstrates how the artwork of these individual artists influenced Charlotte Smith’s literary corpus. It also shows a mutual influence: how the literary works of Charlotte Smith impacted the corpora of these artists. This study uncovers information which was not heretofore known regarding these artists: it reveals a mistaken attribution of a sketch which accompanied the second volume of Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1797) and sheds light on a print, held by the British Museum, which was previously shrouded in mystery. The artworks also enhance the existing scholarly knowledge about Smith’s biography. This book analyses the tropes and motifs employed by Smith’s artist-associates in the context of the popular aesthetics of the period and undertakes parallel readings between such visual artistry and Smith’s literary works. The book deliberates on how Smith utilises these aesthetics as narrative devices, making use of the tropes of the picturesque, the sublime and the beautiful, as well as that of a national British heraldic artwork, in order to produce and enhance meaning in her literary oeuvre. Thus, Smith uses aesthetic structures as vehicles for social critique, commentating on political, gender, moral and class concerns in addition to enhancing the perceived authenticity of her own artistry. The scholarship aims to correct the common misperception that Smith was a lonely marginal figure of Romanticism and instead asserts her central position in an enormous network of key artistic figures of British Romanticism.
Author: John Aikin
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 506
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Burton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-29
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1000367606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century. Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel identifies the picturesque thinker William Gilpin as a significant influence in this literary and environmental tradition. Remarks on Forest Scenery (1791) is formed by Gilpin’s own observations of trees, forests, and his New Forest home specifically; but it is also the product of tree-stories collected from ‘travellers and historians’ that came before him. This study tracks the impact of this accumulating arboreal discourse upon nineteenth-century environmental writers such as John Claudius Loudon, Jacob George Strutt, William Howitt, and Mary Roberts, and its influence on varied dialogues surrounding natural history, agriculture, landscaping, deforestation, and public health. Building upon this concept of an ongoing silvicultural discussion, the monograph examines how novelists in the realist mode engage with this discourse and use their understanding of arboreal space and its cultural worth in order to transform their own fictional environments. Through their novelistic framing of single trees, clumps, forests, ancient woodlands, and man-made plantations, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy feature as authors of particular interest. Collectively, in their environmental representations, these novelists engage with a broad range of silvicultural conversation in their writing of space at the beginning, middle, and end of the nineteenth century. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and academics working in the environmental humanities, long nineteenth-century literature, nature writing and environmental literature, environmental history, ecocriticism, and literature and science scholarship.
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 318
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-18
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 052151830X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.
Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 1064
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 598
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