| Description |
xxiii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
[1.] Mind's eye: Images of nature: a photo-essay / Charles Millard -- [2.] Taming of space: Felicitous space: the cottage controversy / George H. Ford -- Imagination in the suburb / Walter L. Creese -- Domestication of nature: five houses in the Lake District / Ellen E. Frank -- [3.] Explorations: Arctic sublime / Chauncey C. Loomis -- Mid-Victorians amongst the Alps / David Robertson -- High and low: Ruskin and the novelists / George Levine -- "A surprising transformation": Dickens and the hearth / Robert L. Patten -- Interior garden and John Stuart Mill / Andrew Griffin -- [4.] Systems of knowledge: Rich economy of nature: chemistry in the nineteenth century / Trevor H. Levere -- Concepts of physical nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson / David B. Wilson -- Human significance of biology: Carpenter, Darwin, and the vera causa / Roger Smith -- Humanist at bay: the Arnold-Huxley debate / R.H. Super -- A science against sciences: Ruskin's floral mythology / Frederick Kirchhoff -- "The perfection of species" and Hardy's Tess / Bruce Johnson -- [5.] Redefinitions: Victorian landscape painting: a change in outlook / W.F. Axton -- "Half sick of shadows": the aesthetic dialogue in pre-Raphaelite painting / Martin Meisel -- Rainbow: a problematic image / George P. Landow -- Sacramental imagination / G.B. Tennyson -- Mutations of the Wordsworthian child of nature / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Browning and the altered romantic landscape / Lawrence Poston III -- Nature and the linguistic moment / J. Hillis Miller -- [6.] Toward the twentieth century: Lawrence's vital source: nature and character in Thomas Hardy / John Paterson -- "That strange abstraction, nature": T.S. Eliot's Victorian inheritance / A. Walton Litz -- Afterglow and aftermath / the editors. |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, British -- 19th century.
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Aesthetics, British. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Nature (Aesthetics) -- History -- 19th century.
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Nature (Aesthetics) |
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History. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Science. |
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Great Britain. |
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Nature photography -- History -- 19th century.
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Nature photography. |
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Painting, Victorian -- Great Britain.
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Painting, Victorian. |
| Added Author |
Knoepflmacher, U. C.
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Tennyson, G. B.
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| ISBN |
0520032292 : $25.00 |
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9780520032293 |
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