Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Anne M. Myers.
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture -- Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem -- Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow -- Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history -- Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries -- Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture -- Coda. St. Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.
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Architecture and literature--History--17th century. Architecture and literature--History--16th century. English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700