Description:
Paperback / softback. New. By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship. This book argues that the rhetoric of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic. Just as architects of eighteenth-century follies pretend to have discovered "authentic" ruins, novelists within the culture of sensibility also build purposely fragmented texts and disguise their authorship, invoking highly artificial means of simulating nature. The cultural pursuit of human ruin, however, leads to hypocritical and sadistic extremes that put an end to the…
Read More Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Inger Sigrun Brodey
Details
- Title Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
- Author Inger Sigrun Brodey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 274
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2012-02-23
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.5
More Copies for Sale
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
by Inger Sigrun Brodey
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$61.10$12.86 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
$61.10
$12.86
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
by Brodey, Inger Sigrun (Author)
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$66.81$12.92 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Routledge, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 274 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.87 inches.
Item Price
$66.81
$12.92
shipping to USA
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
by Inger Sigrun Brodey
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$68.63$12.86 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Item Price
$68.63
$12.86
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
by Inger Sigrun Brodey
- New
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Quantity Available
- 106
- Seller
-
Uxbridge, Greater London, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$79.64$10.33 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility.
Item Price
$79.64
$10.33
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
by Brodey, Inger Sigrun (Author)
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$84.65$12.92 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Routledge, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 274 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.87 inches.
Item Price
$84.65
$12.92
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Brodey, Inger Sigrun
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780415542104 / 0415542103
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$112.97FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Item Price
$112.97
FREE shipping to USA