From the Temple to the Castle

by Morrissey, Lee

• ISBN13: 9780813918990
• ISBN10: 0813918995
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

By examining the connections between literature and architecture in the work of writers and by viewing architecture in literary terms, Lee Morrissey traces a narrative of cultural change in the Augustan Age and beyond.
Each chapter establishes a connection with architecture in the careers of an author and then describes how a principal text - Paradise Lost, The Provok'd Wife, An Essay on Man, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and The Castle of Otranto - focuses the literary and historical issues of the period in architectural terms.

Author Biography

Lee Morrissey is Assistant Professor of English in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities at Clemson University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Literature and Architecture	p. 1
"Truth Is a Just and Naturall Proportion": Milton, Wotton, and Renaissance Architectural Theory	p. 17
"Against the Too Exact Observance of the Rules": Vanbrugh's Political Struggle over Aesthetic Form	p. 40
"The Utmost Grace of Uniformity": Pope's Anglo-Palladian Epic	p. 62
"Approach and Read the Stone": Toward an Archaeology of Gray's "Elegy"	p. 81
"To Invent in Art and Folly": Walpole's Castle of Otranto	p. 108
Coda: On Literary and Architectural Form	p. 131
Notes	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 173
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