| Description |
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction: the continuing mystique of Paradise; Part I. Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden Paradises: 1. Gardening Lords; Part II. Romantic Paradisal Bowers, Valleys, and Islands: 2. Blake and the unencing dialectic of Earth and Eden; 3. Coleridge and the enchantments of earthly paradise; 4. Wordsworth and the Axis Mundi of Grasmere; 5. Byron's and Shelley's Hesperian Islands; 6. Bewick's, Constable's, and Palmer's Locus Paradisus; 7. Crabbe's and Clare's enclosed vales; Part III. Victorian Heavenly Cities and Blessed Damozels: 8. From natural landscape to controlled environment; 9. Paxton's Hyde Park Crystal Palace; 10. Turner's fabled Atlantis: London, Venice and Carthage as paradisal cityscape; 11. Tennyson's celestial Camelot; 12. Mid-Victorian London and the angel in the house; 13. Pre-Raphaelite tainted gardens, lost ladies, and intruders on the green; 14. Rossetti's blessed Eve and her daughters; 15. Whistler's peacock room: a curvilinear Locus Spiritus for the Times; Notes' Index |
| Analysis |
English visual arts, 1700-1900. Special subjects: Paradise - Critical studies |
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Poetry in English, 1800-1900. Special subjects: Paradise - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 324-361 |
| Subject |
Arts, English -- 18th century.
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Arts, English -- 19th century.
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Arts, English.
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Arts, Modern -- 17th-18th centuries -- England
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Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- England.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- England.
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Paradise in art.
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Paradise in literature.
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| LC no. |
85005959 |
| ISBN |
0521301734 |
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