Tides in English Taste (1619–1800) : : A Background for the Study of Literature. / Volume 1, : Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, Volume 1 / / B. Sprague Allen.

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• VerfasserIn: Allen, B. Sprague,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1937
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Tides in English Taste (1619–1800) ; Volume 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 p.)

Although the history of literature and the history of art are so closely interwoven as to be indispensable to one another, it has been extremely difficult for readers of literature to gain any knowledge of the arts of design because the information is widely scattered in books written by specialists for specialists. Recognizing this fact, B. Sprague Allen has taken a corner of the vast field and discussed the development of taste in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His book is an account of taste, that is, the likes and dislikes of the men who built and furnished houses and laid out gardens in this period of English culture. Their taste is revealed to a hitherto unrecognized extent in diaries, letters, essays, and plays, and is an index of English civilization. Allen has thus been concerned with the whole complex pattern of living and has made us think and feel and see with the faculties of the cultivated Englishman of two or three hundred years ago.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. THE WAYWARDNESS OF ELIZABETHAN CLASSICISM -- I. THE NEW VISION OF ORDER -- II. THE BUILDING MANIA OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- III. THE REFLECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS IN LETTERS -- IV. SATIRIC CRITICISM OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE -- V. THE REVOLUTION IN GARDEN DESIGN -- VI. THE PROSPECT, THE FLOWER GARDEN, AND THE STAGE GARDEN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- VII. THE FORMAL GARDEN IN THE AGE OF DISCIPLINE -- VIII. TOWN PLANNING IN THE AGE OF DISCIPLINE -- IX. EUROPE'S DISCOVERY OF THE FAR EAST -- X. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND BY ORIENTAL ART -- XI. THE RIVALRY BETWEEN INDIAN CHINTZ AND ENGLISH TEXTILES -- XII. CLASSICAL CRITICISM OF ORIENTAL ART -- NOTES