The Tory View of Landscape (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300059045)

This illuminating and stimulating book argues that the history of English landscape from about 1760 to 1820 reflected a struggle between proponents of a traditional, natural, Christian, organic-or tory-view of the landscape versus those who advocated the aggressive, privatizing, impersonal-or whig-tendencies of contemporary "improvement". Examining literature, painted and engraved images, and the physical environment of the period, Nigel Everett depicts a lively, intelligent debate about the development of English society and the relation of people to the land.

Author: Nigel Everett
ISBN-10: 0300059043
ISBN-13: 9780300059045
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/27/1994
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 10.40h x 7.94w x 0.87d