Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies - Tapa blanda

Harris, Alexandra

 
9780500292655: Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies
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ISBN 10: 0500292655 ISBN 13: 9780500292655
Editorial: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2016

Sinopsis

The first book to consider English literary and artistic responses to the weather, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award

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Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. Her first full-length book, Romantic Moderns, published by Thames & Hudson, was the winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award. Alexandra Harris was also a winner in the BBC's 'New Generation Thinkers' contest in 2011.

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Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and paintings. Alexandra Harris’s subject is not the weather itself, but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination. She builds her remarkable story from small evocative details and catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: ‘Bloody cold’, says Jonathan Swift in the ‘slobbery’ January of 1713; Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one... Weatherland is both a sweeping panorama of cultural climates on the move and a richly illustrated, intimate account – for although weather, like culture, is vast, it is experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually; as Harris cleverly reveals, it is at the very core of what it means to be English.

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Editorial
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0500292655
ISBN 13 
9780500292655
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
432
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