Romantic moderns English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper /

Harris, Alexandra

Romantic moderns English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper / [Texte imprimé] : Alexandra Harris - London : Thames & Hudson, cop. 2010 - 1 vol. (320 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Bibliogr. p. 309-313

Prologue : in England -- Ancient and modern -- Concrete and curlicues -- A Georgian revival -- Victoriana -- From purity to a pageant -- A break for refreshments -- The canon revised -- The weather forecast -- Village life -- Parish news -- Variations on a view -- An hour in the garden -- Dreaming of Manderley -- House building -- Literary architecture -- Afterword : new maps

Alexandra Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the Modern period. She examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten

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English literature--20th century--History and criticism Romanticism Romanticism in art Modernism (Art) Modernism (Literature) Art and society--Great Britain--History--20th century Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century

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