Place-making for the imagination : Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill /

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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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Harney, Marion
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
Subjects:
Walpole, Horace, > 1717-1797 > Aesthetics.
Walpole, Horace, > 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts > England > London.
Walpole, Horace, > 1717-1797.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Aesthetics, British > 18th century.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, British.
Buildings.
Homes.
Twickenham (London, England) > Buildings, structures, etc.
England > London.
England > Richmond upon Thames > Twickenham.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface. Walpole moves from Strawberry Hill to Connecticut
  • Introduction. 'Things come to light' : experiment and experience : the philosophical and cultural context
  • 'The pleasures of the imagination' : tropes of taste
  • 'Giving an idea of the spirit of the times' : anecdotes and antiquarianism
  • 'I am going to build a little Gothic castle at Strawberry Hill' : creation of a seat, part 1
  • 'The art of creating landscape' : creation of a seat, part 2
  • Epilogue. 'A genius is original, invents. Taste selects, perhaps copies with judgement'

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