Inquiry into the Picturesque
196 pages
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6 x 8-1/2
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© 1991
The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Mixture
Pastoral
Compositions of Politics and Money
Liberty Not License
Artifice
Connection
Prospect
Notes
Bibliography
Prologue
Mixture
Pastoral
Compositions of Politics and Money
Liberty Not License
Artifice
Connection
Prospect
Notes
Bibliography
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