The search for the picturesque : landscape aesthetics and tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 / Malcolm Andrews.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1989Description: xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0804714029
- 9780804714020
- 0804718342
- 9780804718349
- 914.10473
- DA620. A58 1989
Contents:
I: The rise of the Picturesque -- Poetry and the discovery of British landscape -- Landscape painting and the Picturesque formulae -- The evolution of Picturesque taste, 1750-1800 -- Travelling 'knick-knacks' -- II: The Picturesque tours -- The Wye Valley tour: river scenery and ruins -- The North Wales tour: mountains and bards -- The tour to the Lakes -- The Highlands tour and the Ossianic sublime.
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 914.10473 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A163842B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
I: The rise of the Picturesque -- Poetry and the discovery of British landscape -- Landscape painting and the Picturesque formulae -- The evolution of Picturesque taste, 1750-1800 -- Travelling 'knick-knacks' -- II: The Picturesque tours -- The Wye Valley tour: river scenery and ruins -- The North Wales tour: mountains and bards -- The tour to the Lakes -- The Highlands tour and the Ossianic sublime.
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