Book ID: CBB001211500

Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010)

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Reynolds, Nicole (Author)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: viii + 211 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Building Romanticism sets the literary culture of Romantic Britain within the context of the period's architectural productions in order to recover a relationship between these arts that, though deeply valued by writers and architects of the day, has been neglected by modern scholars in both fields. Toward this goal, Nicole Reynolds explores the centrality of architecture and architectural tropes to Romanticism's dramatic reconceptualization of the individual subject and of the world that subject inhabits. -- Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class mobility, the individual's uncertain place in history, challenges to the British national character and to the project of nation building, and the very form and function of art itself. By tracing the reception of Romantic topoi--rhetorical and literal common places--through the nineteenth century, this book explores how Victorians remodeled Romanticism, its ideological preoccupations and cultural artifacts, according to their own era's social agendas

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Authors & Contributors
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Catherine Spooner
Stephenson, Ethan Taylor
Faflak, Joel
Cardoso de Matos, Ana
Mosley, James
Concepts
Technology and culture
Technology and literature
Technology
Romanticism
Industrial revolution
Machines
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Lisbon (Portugal)
United States
Portugal
China
Institutions
Lisbon Industrial Institute
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