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Author Sweeting, Adam W., 1963-

Title Reading houses and building books : Andrew Jackson Downing and the architecture of popular antebellum literature, 1835-1855 / Adam W. Sweeting.

Publication Info. Hanover : University Press of New England, [1996]
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
Contents Ch. 1. "The Imperfections of Our Nature": Downing's Landscapes and the Picturesque -- Ch. 2. "For Convenience and Comfort": Downing's Architectural Pattern Books -- Ch. 3. Framing the Restless Mirror: The Hudson River and the Genteel Aesthetic -- Ch. 4. "A More Beautiful and Tasteful Model": Architecture, Morality, and Gentility -- Ch. 5. "A Very Pleasant Patriarchal Life": The Homes of the Genteel Romantics -- Ch. 6. The Stage Comes to Life: The Socialization of Genteel Aesthetics.
Summary Andrew Jackson Downing's reputation as architect, landscape designer, and author spread far beyond his native Hudson River Valley during the first half of the 19th century. But as Adam Sweeting suggests in this elegantly written, illustrated account, Downing's real legacy lies in the philosophical statement he created by melding the literary and building arts with an intensely moralistic outlook.
Along with such contemporaries as William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and Frederick Law Olmsted, Downing pursued what Sweeting calls genteel romanticism, an ideal that viewed the confluence of polite literature and graceful dwellings as not just an aesthetic statement, but an ethical imperative.
This study of a unique coalescence of literature, architecture, and gardening illuminates "the widely held belief that efforts to reform the world began at home, that beautiful and clean houses produced morally beautiful and spiritually clean people."
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Note Print version record.
Local Note EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete
Language English.
Subject Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 -- Influence.
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852. (OCoLC)fst00053916
American literature -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History and criticism.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Intellectual life.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Architecture and literature -- History -- 19th century.
Landscape architecture -- United States.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Architecture and literature. (OCoLC)fst00813564
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. (OCoLC)fst00821779
Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Landscape architecture. (OCoLC)fst00991814
Popular literature. (OCoLC)fst01071405
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States -- Hudson River Valley. (OCoLC)fst01311280
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Indexed Term English literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Sweeting, Adam W., 1963- Reading houses and building books. Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1996 (DLC) 95039747 (OCoLC)33133047
ISBN 0874517508 (alkaline paper)
9780874517507 (alkaline paper)
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