{"product_id":"a-sweet-view-malcolm-andrews-9781789144987","title":"A Sweet View: The Making of an English Idyll","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Sweet View\u003c\/i\u003e explores how writers and artists in the nineteenth century shaped the English countryside as a partly imaginary idyll, with its distinctive repertoire of idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources and features some of the key makers of the \"South Country\" rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster, and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape--indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted \"the very essence of England\" itself. As \u003ci\u003eA Sweet View \u003c\/i\u003emakes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm Andrews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789144981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789144987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 7.01w x 1.00d","brand":"Malcolm Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43996001566975,"sku":"9781789144987","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e851a0a6-fdad-4f4c-aa34-0e5a21be96c3.jpg?v=1683339118","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-sweet-view-malcolm-andrews-9781789144987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}