Volume 1 Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, Volume 1

B. Sprague Allen

Published by Harvard University Press 1937

Volume 1 Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, Volume 1

B. Sprague Allen

Part of the multi-volume work Tides in English Taste (1619–1800)

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674729865

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Although the history of literature and the history of art are so closely interwoven as to be indispensable to one another, it has been extremely difficult for readers of literature to gain any knowledge of the arts of design because the information is widely scattered in books written by specialists for specialists. Recognizing this fact, B. Sprague Allen has taken a corner of the vast field and discussed the development of taste in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His book is an account of taste, that is, the likes and dislikes of the men who built and furnished houses and laid out gardens in this period of English culture. Their taste is revealed to a hitherto unrecognized extent in diaries, letters, essays, and plays, and is an index of English civilization. Allen has thus been concerned with the whole complex pattern of living and has made us think and feel and see with the faculties of the cultivated Englishman of two or three hundred years ago.

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An enlivening index to English civilization during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Learned and entertaining

Covers the subject in a thoroughly competent fashion. It is both scholarly and readable and offers painlessly an amazing amount of information drawn from literary sources which should be of particular interest to students of art history and aesthetics.

Contains material that any student of eighteenth century life will be glad to possess. Professor Allen’s scheme represents a relatively new idea in literary research, and an intelligent and discerning approach to a fertile subject.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
INTRODUCTION. THE WAYWARDNESS OF ELIZABETHAN CLASSICISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
I. THE NEW VISION OF ORDER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
II. THE BUILDING MANIA OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
III. THE REFLECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS IN LETTERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
IV. SATIRIC CRITICISM OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
V. THE REVOLUTION IN GARDEN DESIGN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
VI. THE PROSPECT, THE FLOWER GARDEN, AND THE STAGE GARDEN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
VII. THE FORMAL GARDEN IN THE AGE OF DISCIPLINE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
VIII. TOWN PLANNING IN THE AGE OF DISCIPLINE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
IX. EUROPE'S DISCOVERY OF THE FAR EAST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
X. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND BY ORIENTAL ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
XI. THE RIVALRY BETWEEN INDIAN CHINTZ AND ENGLISH TEXTILES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
XII. CLASSICAL CRITICISM OF ORIENTAL ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1937
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 17
- Main content: 269
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 51
Keywords: Aesthetics -- History; Art and literature; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Civilization

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