The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature

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  • Author : Yvonne Bezrucka
  • Release Date : 2018-06-11
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 278
  • ISBN 13 : 1527512886
  • File Size : 55,55 MB
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The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature by Yvonne Bezrucka PDF Summary

Book Description: Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain’s self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a ‘Northern’ aesthetics to challenge the European yoke, this book explores the roots of British Romanticism and a newly created past. Literature, the arts, architecture, and gardening all contributed to the creation of this national, ‘enlightened’, Northern cultural environment, with its emphasis on a home-grown legal tradition, on a heroic Celtic past, and on the imagined democracy of King Arthur and his Roundtable of Knights as a prophetic precursor of Constitutional Monarchy. Set against the European Grand Tour, the British turned to the Domestic, Picturesque Anti-Grand-Tour, and alongside a classical literary heritage championed British authors and British empiricism, against continental religion that sanctioned an authoritarian politics that the Gothic Novel mocks. However, if empiricism and common law were vital to this emerging tradition, so too was the other driving force of Britain’s medieval inheritance, the fantasy world of mythic heroes and a celebration of what would come to be known as the ‘fairy way of writing’.

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