| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter One; 1.1 Innatism vs. Empiricism; 1.2 The Dismantling of the Genius Theory; Chapter Two; 2.1 Addison and The Pleasures of the Imagination; 2.2 The Fairy Way of Writing; 2.3 Shakespeare's Fairy Way of Writing; Chapter Three; 3.1 The 'Invention' of Northern Aesthetics; 3.2 The Climate Hypothesis; 3.3 Northern vs. Southern Perspective-Choices; Chapter Four; 4.1 William Gilpin's Picturesque (Domestic) Anti-Grand-Tour; 4.2 The English 'Picturesque' Garden and its Emblems; 4.3 Hogarth's Line of Beauty (1753); 4.4 Burke's Sublime |
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4.5 Francis Grose and Aesthetic RegionalismChapter Five; 5.1 Welsh Bards and the Saxon-Gothic; 5.2 The Faerie Queene, King Arthur and the Celtic Tradition; 5.3 Invention and Rootedness at War, Culture vs. Essentialism; 5.4 Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Conclusion; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain's self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a 'Northern' aesthetics to challenge the European yoke, this book explores the roots of British Romanticism and a newly created past. Literature, the arts, architecture, and gardening all contributed to the creation of this national, 'enlightened', Northern cultural environment, with its emphasis on a home-grown legal tradition, on a heroic Celtic past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aesthetics in literature.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Western philosophy: Enlightenment.
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Philosophy: aesthetics.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Aesthetics in literature.
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English literature.
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527512887 |
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1527512886 |
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