The picturesque in the nineteenth century

Author(s)

• Andrews, Malcolm

Bibliographic Information

The picturesque in the nineteenth century

edited and with an introduction by Malcolm Andrews

（The Helm Information literary sources & documents series, . The picturesque : literary sources & documents / edited and with an indtoduction by Malcolm Andrews ; v. 3）

Helm Information, c1994

Other Title

The picturesque

Note

Series statement in v. 1 only

Introduction in v. 1

V. 1: <BA22838889>

Contents of Works

• A review of price's essay / William Marshall
• On landscape gardening / Sir Walter Scott
• From Journal, January 1854 / Henry David Thoreau
• The travellers : a satire / Anonymous
• The lakers : an opera / James Plumptre
• Letters from England / Robert Southey
• The tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque / William Combe
• Headlong hall / Thomas Love Peacock
• The tour of Doctor Prosody / Anonymous
• The masters of landscape / William Lisle Bowles
• An evening walk / William Wordsworth
• A note to Descriptive sketches / William Wordsworth
• Observations on the sublime, the picturesque, &c / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds / John Keats
• To De Wint / John Clare
• Essay on landscape / John Clare
• The mysteries of Udolpho / Ann Radcliffe
• "Beauty with utility" / Jane Austen
• Waverley / Sir Walter Scott
• Pictures from Italy / Charles Dickens
• North and south / Elizabeth Gaskell
• On picturesque peasantry / George Eliot
• Adam Bede / George Eliot
• Middlemarch / George Eliot
• Amwell. a descriptive poem / John Scott
• Remarks on rural scenery / J. T. Smith
• Picturesque farming / Thomas Ruggles
• An essay on British cottage architecture / James Malton
• Essay on rural architecture : a reply to James Malton / Richard Elsam
• Hints for picturesque improvements / Edmund Bartell, Jun
• Hints for improving the condition of the peasantry / Richard Elsam
• Rural architecture / P. F. Robinson
• The Lowland cottage / John Ruskin
• Picturesque examples / William Young
• Philosophical essays / Dugald Stewart
• Hints on ornamental gardening / John Buonarotti Papworth
• On the beautiful, the picturesque, the sublime / J. G. MacVicar
• Modern painters / John Ruskin
• Pictures of nature and of art / Warren Burton
• Turner and Girtin's picturesque views / Thomas Miller
• On beauty / John Stuart Blackie
• The elements of picturesque scenery / Henry Twining
• The taste for the picturesque among the Greeks / E. M. Cope
• Terms of art / William Bell Scott
• The lamp of memory / John Ruskin
• The grotesque and the picturesque / John Ruskin
• Of the Turnerian picturesque / John Ruskin

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Each title in the "Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents" series concentrates on a significant cultural and literary area or period and offers the student an extensive range of primary source and documentary material which together represents a significant research resource. The material presented consists of original source material from the period or subject and includes prefaces, letters, essays and critical texts from the period as well as related material - especially complete texts. In addition, each set includes a substantial introductory essay placing the material in context; a chronology of the period or movement noting texts and figures as well as relating material to relevant references elsewhere; a bibliography of the texts associated with the period or movement; an extensive critical bibliography; and biographical notes on significant figures and editorial notes on the source material. The aim of these volumes is to provide a wide selection of texts which bear upon the development of the idea of "The Picturesque in 18th and 19th century Britain. With one or two exceptions only, all writers here represented are British and the object of their less abstract reflections is the nature of British landscapes, although it should be recognized that many of these commentators developed their connoisseurship on the Grand tour of Europe, where a capacity for the aesthetic evaluation of landscape was regarded as the mark of a cultivated sensibility. "The Picturesque" developed as a mode of landscape appraisal in the middle and later 18th century. It assumes for many the status of a science. It acquired its own technical jargon of "side-screens", "off-skips", three "distances" etc. By the late 18th century, the fashion for scenic tourism to the Lake district, North Wales, and the Scottish Highlands, was well developed. The Tourists were well versed in the vocabulary of the "Picturesque", and under its prescriptive influence would refine their water-colour sketches and journal entries to fit a series of landscape formulae. The topic of the "Picturesque" was much debated, both informally in the journals and correspondence of these tourists and, more formally, in a number of "essays" in the 1790s - notably by William Giopin and Uvedale Price. Both debates are extensively represented in this volume. The vogue for the "Picturesque" became an object of ridicule early in the 19th century: in the novels of Jane Austen and Peacock and in the satirical travels of Dr. Syntax. These, too, are featured. In the victorian period, a more serious reaction against the "Picturesque" developed, chiefly in the writings of John Ruskin who tried to introduce a stronger ethical element into an aesthetic that concentrated with such relish on scenes of poverty and dilapidation. The volumes close in about 1870 when Ruskin's revisionist work on the "Picturesque" had largely been completed. But this is not the end of the story. The "Picturesque" has a remarkable tenacity and adaptability, even to the present day. Although the word itself no longer excites the controversy that it did in the later 18th century, our attitudes to the natural landscape are still coloured by it. These volumes provide the material for re-examining what may be regarded as the roots of our modern attitudes towards natural scenery.

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Details

• NCID: BA23447424
• ISBN:
  • 1873403100
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Mountfield [East Sussex, U.K.]
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 359 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 930.2
  • DC20 : 820.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Picturesque, The, in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20406089