Title Nature and the Victorian imagination / edited by U. C. Knoepflmacher and G. B. Tennyson

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1977] Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1977 ©1977

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Description xxiii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents [1.] The mind's eye Images of nature: a photo-essay / Charles Millard -- [2.] The taming of space Felicitous space: the cottage controversy / George H. Ford -- Imagination in the suburb / Walter L. Creese -- The domestication of nature: five houses in the Lake District / Ellen E. Frank -- [3.] Explorations The Arctic sublime / Chauncey C. Loomis -- Mid-Victorians amongst the Alps / David Robertson -- High and low: Ruskin and the novelists / George Levine -- "A surprising transformation": Dickens and the hearth / Robert L. Patten -- The interior garden and John Stuart Mill / Andrew Griffin -- [4.] Systems of knowledge The rich economy of nature: chemistry in the nineteenth century / Trevor H. Levere -- Concepts of physical nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson / David B. Wilson -- The human significance of biology: Carpenter, Darwin, and the vera causa / Roger Smith -- The humanist at bay: the Arnold-Huxley debate / R.H. Super -- A science against sciences: Ruskin's floral mythology / Frederick Kirchhoff -- "The perfection of species" and Hardy's Tess / Bruce Johnson -- [5.] Redefinitions Victorian landscape painting: a change in outlook / W.F. Axton -- "Half sick of shadows": the aesthetic dialogue in pre-Raphaelite painting / Martin Meisel -- The rainbow: a problematic image / George P. Landow -- The sacramental imagination / G.B. Tennyson -- Mutations of the Wordsworthian child of nature / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Browning and the altered romantic landscape / Lawrence Poston III -- Nature and the linguistic moment / J. Hillis Miller -- [6.] Toward the twentieth century Lawrence's vital source: nature and character in Thomas Hardy / John Paterson -- "That strange abstraction, nature": T.S. Eliot's Victorian inheritance / A. Walton Litz -- Afterglow and aftermath / the editors Analysis Aesthetics, British 19th century English literature 19th century History and criticism Nature (Aesthetics) History 19th century Nature photography History 19th century Painting, Victorian Great Britain Science Great Britain History 19th century Notes Col. ill. tipped in Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Includes index Subject Aesthetics, British -- 19th century. Aesthetics, British. Nature (Aesthetics) English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Nature (Aesthetics) -- History -- 19th century. Nature in art. Nature photography -- History -- 19th century. Nature photography. Painting, Victorian -- Great Britain. Painting, Victorian -- England. Science -- England -- History. Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Esthetics -- history. Literature -- history. Nature. Paintings -- history. Science -- history. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850 -- 1800-1899 Author Knoepflmacher, U. C. Tennyson, G. B. LC no. 76007761 ISBN 0520032292

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