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Andrews, Malcolm

 
9781789144987: A Sweet View: The Making of an English Idyll

Sinopsis

A Sweet View explores how writers and artists in the nineteenth century shaped the English countryside as a partly imaginary idyll, with its distinctive repertoire of idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort.
The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources, and features some of the key makers of the ‘South Country’ rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape – indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted ‘the very essence of England’ itself. The countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.

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Acerca del autor

Malcolm Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent, and was for 30 years the Editor of The Dickensian. He is the author of many books including Landscape and Western Art (1999).

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