A Sweet View

The Making of an English Idyll

A Sweet View
Malcolm Andrews
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Hardback
h235 x 165mm - 356pg
11 Oct 2021 UK
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9781789144987
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From country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss. 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. As A Sweet View makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.
Malcolm Andrews is professor emeritus of Victorian and visual studies at the University of Kent and was for thirty years the editor of the Dickensian. He is the author of many books, including Landscape and Western Art.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789144987
Published: 11 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 165mm
Pages: 356

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