Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Reproducing Englishness

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   Pages 1-12

3. In Pursuit of an English Style: The Allure of Gothic

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   Pages 13-36

4. Gothic Adaptations and Reprisals

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   Pages 37-66

5. Tracing the Wild Man in Shakespeare’s England

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   Pages 67-107

6. The English Country Estate and the Landscape’s Nation

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   Pages 108-142

7. Thomas Hardy’s Architecture of History

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   Pages 143-184

8. Dracula and Gothic Tourism

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   Pages 185-220

9. Back Matter

   Pages 221-250

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An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history.

• architecture
• England
• English literature
• landscape
• Middle Ages
• Thomas Hardy
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Pittsburgh, USA

  John Twyning

JOHN TWYNING is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of London Dispossessed.

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