{"product_id":"paradise-preserved-recreations-in-eden-in-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-england-paperback-9780521118927","title":"Paradise Preserved; Recreations in Eden in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England (Paperback) 9780521118927","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eParadise Preserved\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRecreations in Eden in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the ways in which the idea of an earthly paradise inspired English life and thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMax F. Schulz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521118927, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 3 September 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e388 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 18.9 x 2 cm, 0.69 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis major book examines the ways in which the idea of an earthly paradise inspired English life and thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Schulz begins with the eighteenth-century passion for landscape gardens - attempts physically to recreate Eden on earth. He traces the 'internalising' of Eden by the Romantic poets and by painters such as Constable and Palmer, and then turns to the Victorian identification of paradise not with a garden but with the city - a technological Eden, achieved by massive feats of engineering that would control the environment. Chapters on Turner, Tennyson, and the Pre-Raphaelites show the increasing disillusion with this urban and mechanised ideal as the century declined towards the purely imaginative paradises of Beardsley's drawings and Whistler's Peacock Room - Eden recreated in the dining room of a Liverpool shipping millionaire. Wide ranging in scope and generously illustrated, Paradise Preserved is a remarkable work of literary, artistic and cultural history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the continuing mystique of Paradise\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden Paradises: 1. Gardening Lords\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Romantic Paradisal Bowers, Valleys, and Islands: 2. Blake and the unencing dialectic of Earth and Eden\u003cbr\u003e 3. Coleridge and the enchantments of earthly paradise\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wordsworth and the Axis Mundi of Grasmere\u003cbr\u003e 5. Byron's and Shelley's Hesperian Islands\u003cbr\u003e 6. Bewick's, Constable's, and Palmer's Locus Paradisus\u003cbr\u003e 7. Crabbe's and Clare's enclosed vales\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Victorian Heavenly Cities and Blessed Damozels: 8. From natural landscape to controlled environment\u003cbr\u003e 9. Paxton's Hyde Park Crystal Palace\u003cbr\u003e 10. Turner's fabled Atlantis: London, Venice and Carthage as paradisal cityscape\u003cbr\u003e 11. Tennyson's celestial Camelot\u003cbr\u003e 12. Mid-Victorian London and the angel in the house\u003cbr\u003e 13. Pre-Raphaelite tainted gardens, lost ladies, and intruders on the green\u003cbr\u003e 14. Rossetti's blessed Eve and her daughters\u003cbr\u003e 15. Whistler's peacock room: a curvilinear Locus Spiritus for the Times\u003cbr\u003e Notes' Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004775354648,"sku":"9780521118927","price":39.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521118927i_d127b667-6fd9-436b-ab13-c79ca5df27a3.jpg?v=1691371625","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paradise-preserved-recreations-in-eden-in-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-england-paperback-9780521118927","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}