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Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
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Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Inger Sigrun Brodey


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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 characteristic ambivalence of sensibility and its unusual structures.

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  • Title Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
  • Author Inger Sigrun Brodey
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 274
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2008-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780415989503 / 0415989507
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Library of Congress subjects English fiction - 18th century - History and, Gardens in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008005413
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.509

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An award-winning teacher and essayist, Dr. Brodey is Assistant Professor in English and Comparative Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published extensively on Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Preromanticism, and the Culture of Sensibility.

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