Place-making for the imagination : Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill / Marion Harney.
Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century "Gothic" villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This beautifully illustrated book reveals...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Summary: | Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century "Gothic" villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stiumlate. 'The Pleasure of the Imagiation' articulated in the series of essays by Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) published in the Spectator (1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are nto based around architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics theories, antiquarianism and matters of "Taste." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 308 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409470052 1409470059 9781409470069 1409470067 9781306170109 1306170109 |