ISBN10: 0472117319, ISBN13: 9780472117314, [publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor] Hardcover Hardcover. Building Romanticism sets the literary culture of Romantic Britain within the context of the period's architectural productions in order to recover a relationship between these arts that, though deeply valued by writers and architects of the day, has been neglected by modern scholars in both fields. Toward this goal, Nicole Reynolds explores the centrality of architecture and architectural tropes to Romanticism's dramatic reconceptualisation of the individual subject and of the world that subject inhabits. Focusing on the correspondence between the period's built environments and its literary pursuits, Building Romanticism argues that at this turbulent moment in British history a number of politically charged and aesthetically resonant architectural spaces, both real and imagined, negotiated intense anxieties about shifting notions of gender and sexuality, increased class mobility, the individual's uncertain place in history, challenges to the British national character and to the project of nation building, and the very form and function of art itself. By tracing the reception of Romantic topoirhetorical and literal common placesthrough the nineteenth century, this book explores how Victorians remodelled Romanticism, its ideological preoccupations and cultural artefacts, according to their own era's social agendas. Building ...
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