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Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137284709

ISBN: 978-1-349-28606-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 26, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Reproducing Englishness

Twyning, John

Pages: 1 –12

[A ruined seat of hereditary authority provides a landscape through which the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge looks to reshape meaning, history, sensibility, and our affective bonds to place. Transformed from Milton’s “‘Most musical, most melancholy’ Bird!,” Coleridge gives us a communicative and...
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Chapter 2In Pursuit of an English Style: The Allure of Gothic

Twyning, John

Pages: 13 –36

[On Easter Monday in 1786, the western tower of Hereford Cathedral collapsed and demolished two bays of the nave and the whole of the building’s west front (Figure 1.1). Of course, various parts of England’s churches fell down with some regularity, but the downfall of Hereford’s west end and the...
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Chapter 3Gothic Adaptations and Reprisals

Twyning, John

Pages: 37 –66

[There were approximately seven to eight thousand churches standing on the eve of the Reformation in England. Not one of them remained wholly unscathed by the iconoclastic fervor that followed. Most were damaged quite extensively. Pictures, statues, images, and altars were especially targeted by...
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Chapter 4Tracing the Wild Man in Shakespeare’s England

Twyning, John

Pages: 67 –107

[Standing in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral, it is hard not to be over-whelmed by the structure that confronts you (Figure 3.1). The scope and intensity of the iconoclastic destruction is matched, over matched, by the wonder produced by that which has survived. What was it like when all the...
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Chapter 5The English Country Estate and the Landscape’s Nation

Twyning, John

Pages: 108 –142

[When considering the development of secular architecture and the reorganization of the perception of landscape through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a means of expressing national ideas, we need to confront particular generic models and conventions. As we saw in Chapter 1, Niklaus...
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Chapter 6Thomas Hardy’s Architecture of History

Twyning, John

Pages: 143 –184

[Addressing William Morris’s Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings in 1906, Thomas Hardy concluded his lecture by giving some perplexing and contradictory advice to architects: “If I were practising in that profession I would not, I think, undertake a church restoration in any...
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Chapter 7Dracula and Gothic Tourism

Twyning, John

Pages: 185 –220

[“Ages ago a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched sticks was introduced into the Court of the Exchequer,” noted Charles Dickens, referring to a common method of recording debt that had been used since the Middle Ages. Employed especially in agrarian taxation, the split tally stick had...

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