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Writing Britain's Ruins (Hardcover)
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Writing Britain's Ruins (Hardcover)
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Over the course of the long eighteenth century (1700-1850),
Britain's ruined medieval or 'Gothic' abbeys, castles and towers
became the objects of intense cultural interest. Turning their
attention away from Classical to local and national sites of
architectural ruin, antiquaries and topographers began to
scrutinise and sketch, record and describe the material remains of
the British past, an expression of interest in domestic antiquity
that was shared by many contemporary painters, poets, writers,
politicians and tourists. This new illustrated book traces the ways
in which a selection of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ruins
served as the objects of continuous cultural reflection between
1700 and 1850, drawing together essays on the antiquarian, poetic,
visual, oral, fictional, dramatic, political, legal and touristic
responses that they engendered. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in its
approach, Writing Britain's Ruins provides an accessible and
engaging account of the ways in which Britain's ruins inspired
writers, artists and thinkers during a period of extraordinary
cultural richness.
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