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Author Myers, Anne M.

Title Literature and architecture in early modern England / Anne M. Myers
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

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Contents Introduction : Building Stories : Writing about Architecture in Post-Reformation England -- Loss and foundations : Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture -- Aristocrats and architects : Henry Wotton and the country house poem -- Strange anthologies : the alchemist in the London of John Stow -- Restoring "the church-porch" : George Herbert's architectural history -- Construction sites : the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries -- Recollections : John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture -- Coda : St. Helen's Bishopsgate : antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London
Summary Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. This book examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, the author argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the built environment that surrounded the production of early modern texts in England
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Architecture and literature -- History -- 16th century
Architecture and literature -- History -- 17th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Architecture and literature
English literature -- Early modern
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012207
ISBN 1421408007
9781421408002