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Landscapes and Townscapes
Landscapes and Townscapes

Contributor(s): Grażyna Bystydzieńska (Editor), Magdalena Pypeć (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Middle Ages, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: landscape gardening; picturesque; countryside; aesthetic; pastoral; city; urban space; crime; urban satire; suburbs; adaptation
Summary/Abstract: The essays in this volume discuss various aspects of urbanscapes and landscapes, and analyse their depiction and significance in selected literary and visual works, exploring various approaches to the city, urban spaces, landscape, countryside and topography in the British literature and culture of the long 18th and 19th centuries.

  • E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4873-7
  • Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4865-2
  • Page Count: 126
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Language: English
Humphry Repton and the Pocketbook Picturesque

Humphry Repton and the Pocketbook Picturesque
(Humphry Repton and the Pocketbook Picturesque)

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G.M. Hopkins: Landscape with a Rainbow

G.M. Hopkins: Landscape with a Rainbow
(G.M. Hopkins: Landscape with a Rainbow)

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Nature, Nostalgia, and the Countryside (Goldsmith, Gilpin, and Cobbett)

Nature, Nostalgia, and the Countryside (Goldsmith, Gilpin, and Cobbett)
(Nature, Nostalgia, and the Countryside (Goldsmith, Gilpin, and Cobbett))

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Multiplying Unintelligibility: Joyce, Schizophrenia, Cities and Crime

Multiplying Unintelligibility: Joyce, Schizophrenia, Cities and Crime
(Multiplying Unintelligibility: Joyce, Schizophrenia, Cities and Crime)

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City and Irony: London’s Contradictions in Samuel Johnson’s London

City and Irony: London’s Contradictions in Samuel Johnson’s London
(City and Irony: London’s Contradictions in Samuel Johnson’s London)

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Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs

Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs
(Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs)

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City as a Nightmare: The Treatment of Urban Space in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and Its Selected Visual Interpretations

City as a Nightmare: The Treatment of Urban Space in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and Its Selected Visual Interpretations
(City as a Nightmare: The Treatment of Urban Space in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and Its Selected Visual Interpretations)

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