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Creator:
Reynolds, Nicole
Title(s):

Building romanticism : literature and architecture in nineteenth-century Britain / Nicole Reynolds.

Published/Created:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
viii, 211 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Holdings:
Reference Library
PR457 .R4557 2010 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Terms:
Architecture and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Architecture in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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  • Introduction: romanticism's mansion of many apartments
  • Keats's magic casements and the material sublime
  • The mystery of the boudoir: privacy, literacy, and the rights of woman
  • Cottage industry: the ladies of Llangollen, domestic ideology, and the symbolic capital of the cottage ornée
  • Sir John Soane's House-Museum and romantic nostalgia
  • Afterword: romanticism's theater of the mind's eye.