Volume 2 Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, Volume 2

B. Sprague Allen

Published by Harvard University Press 1937

Volume 2 Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, Volume 2

B. Sprague Allen

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

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674729896

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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
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CHAPTER XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF THE FAR EAST UPON LITERATURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER XIV. THE CHALLENGE OF THE MIDDLE AGES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER XV. CLASSICAL CRITICISM OF "GOTHIC TASTE" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
CHAPTER XVI. THE CHALLENGE OF THE ROCOCO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
CHAPTER XVII. THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN GARDEN DESIGN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ARTIFICE OF THE NATURAL GARDEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
CHAPTER XIX. THE SENTIMENTAL VAGARIES OF THE FUROR HORTENSIAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
CHAPTER XX. LITERARY ALLUSIONS TO THE GARDEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
CHAPTER XXI. THE EMERGENCE OF THE TOURIST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
CHAPTER XXII. HOSTILE CRITICISM OF THE NATURAL GARDEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
CHAPTER XXIII. THE RESURGENCE OF THE CLASSIC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1937
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 282
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 28
Keywords: Great Britain -- Civilization; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Aesthetics -- History; Art and literature

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