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Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Allan R. Ruff
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Havertown, PA : Windgather Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781909686694, 1909686697, 9781909686670, 1909686670, 1909686662
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- List of Illustrations, Sources and Credits; Preface; 1. The Classical Origins of Arcadia; 2. Virgil: the house, garden and landscape; 3. The Christian World and Arcadia; 4. Venice and the Pastoral Landscape; 5. Rome and the Pastoral Landscape; 6. The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of Landscape; 7. Changes to the Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century England; 8. Arcadia and the Pastoral Landscape Realised; 9. The Happy Rural Life; 10. The Coming of the Picturesque and the Romantics; 11. The Pastoral Vision and the American Dream; 12. America and Religious Pastoral
- 13. Ruskin, Morris and the Garden City14. Pastoral Visions of England and the First World War; 15. Modernism and Anti-Pastoral Landscape; 16. The Workers' Pastoral; 17. Arcadia Revisited: the ecological landscape; 18. Eco-Pastoral: the pastoral redefined; 19. Final Thoughts; Timeline; Bibliography; Index