Technologies of the picturesque : British art, poetry, and instruments, 1750-1830 / Ron Broglio.
Technologies of the picturesque : British art, poetry, and instruments, 1750-1830 / Ron Broglio.
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Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
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N700.45609/1
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English
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236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Water -- 1. Introduction: The Sensate and the Sensible -- 2. Longitude and the Inward Turn -- Pt. II. Earth -- 3. From Land to Landscape -- 4. Other Maps and Other Territories -- Pt. III. Sky -- 5. From Sky to Skyscape -- Pt. IV. Animals -- 6. Cultured Cattle: From Bucolic to Beef -- 7. Cattl...
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Publisher
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
With considerable learning and insight, Broglio reveals how artists are both complicit with such objectification of nature, and at other moments work toward a more vivid connection to the environment."--BOOK JACKET....
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Technologies of the picturesque : British art, poetry, and instruments, 1750-1830 / Ron Broglio.
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The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
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c2008.
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N700.45609/1
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74VM5oW7VGm3
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ISBN
9780838757000 (alk. paper)
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700.4560941
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991003734529702626