Literature and architecture in early modern England

By:

Myers, Anne M

Publication details: Maryland Johns Hopkins Uni. Press 2013Description: xi,253pISBN:

9781421407227

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.1 MYE

Contents:

CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Building Stories:Writing about Architecture in Post-Reformation England 1 1 Loss and Foundations: Camden's Britannia and the Histories of English Architecture 23 2 Aristocrats and Architects: Henry Wotton and the Country House Poem 50 3 Strange Anthologies: TheAlchemist in the London of John Stow 77 4 Restoring "The Church-porch": George Herbert's Architectural History 105 5 Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford's Diaries 132 6 Recollections: John Evelyn and the Histories of Restoration Architecture 160 Coda: St. Helen's Bishopsgate: Antiquarianism and Aesthetics in Modern London 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 245

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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Building Stories:Writing about Architecture in Post-Reformation England 1
1 Loss and Foundations: Camden's Britannia and the Histories of English Architecture 23
2 Aristocrats and Architects: Henry Wotton and the Country House Poem 50
3 Strange Anthologies: TheAlchemist in the London of John Stow 77
4 Restoring "The Church-porch": George Herbert's
Architectural History 105
5 Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford's Diaries 132
6 Recollections: John Evelyn and the Histories of Restoration Architecture 160
Coda: St. Helen's Bishopsgate: Antiquarianism and Aesthetics in Modern London 191
Notes 205
Bibliography 229
Index 245

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