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Author/Creator:Harris, Alexandra, 1981-
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Title:Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / Alexandra Harris.
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ISBN:9780500251713
0500251711
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Published/Created:New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.
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Physical Description:320 p. : ill. (chiefly col) ; 24 cm.
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Summary:Alexandra Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the Modern period. She examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and index.
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Contents:Prologue : in England -- Ancient and modern -- Concrete and curlicues -- A Georgian revival -- Victoriana -- From purity to a pageant -- A break for refreshments -- The canon revised -- The weather forecast -- Village life -- Parish news -- Variations on a view -- An hour in the garden -- Dreaming of Manderley -- House building -- Literary architecture -- Afterword : new maps.
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Subjects:English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Romanticism.
Romanticism in art.
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Literature)
Art and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9637976