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Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape / Allan R. Ruff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Windgather Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781909686694
  • 1909686697
  • 9781909686670
  • 1909686670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arcadian visions.DDC classification:
  • 333.7 23
LOC classification:
  • N8205 .R84 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
The classical origins of Arcadia -- Virgil: the house, garden and landscape -- The Christian world and Arcadia -- Venice and the pastoral landscape -- Rome and the pastoral landscape -- The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of landscape -- Changes to the pastoral vision in eighteenth-century England -- Arcadia and the pastoral landscape realised -- The happy rural life -- The coming of the picturesque and the romantics -- The pastoral vision and the American dream -- America and religious pastoral -- Ruskin, Morris and the Garden City -- Pastoral visions of England and the First World War -- The workers' pastoral -- Arcadia revisited: the ecological landscape -- Eco-pastoral: the pastoral redefined -- Final thoughts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The classical origins of Arcadia -- Virgil: the house, garden and landscape -- The Christian world and Arcadia -- Venice and the pastoral landscape -- Rome and the pastoral landscape -- The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of landscape -- Changes to the pastoral vision in eighteenth-century England -- Arcadia and the pastoral landscape realised -- The happy rural life -- The coming of the picturesque and the romantics -- The pastoral vision and the American dream -- America and religious pastoral -- Ruskin, Morris and the Garden City -- Pastoral visions of England and the First World War -- The workers' pastoral -- Arcadia revisited: the ecological landscape -- Eco-pastoral: the pastoral redefined -- Final thoughts.

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