Literature and architecture in early modern England /

Myers, Anne M.

Literature and architecture in early modern England / Anne M. Myers. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - x, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.

Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture -- Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem -- Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow -- Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history -- Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries -- Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture -- Coda. St. Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.

9781421407227 (hdbk. : acidfree paper) 9781421408002 (electronic) 1421407221 (hdbk. : acidfree paper) 1421408007 (electronic)

2012012207


English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Architecture and literature--History--16th century.
Architecture and literature--History--17th century.

PR408.A66 / M94 2013

820.9357 / MYE
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