The Figure in the Landscape
Poetry, Painting and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9307512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James J Yoch, John Dixon Hunt |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1121-1121 |
| Publication date | 1977-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2906902 |
| OpenAlex | W2003439566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a peculiarly art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the free English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness
Art · Art history · Landscape painting · Literature · Painting · Poetry · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies
"Uncouth Shapes" and sublime human forms of Wordsworth's The Prelude in the ligh of Berdyaev's personalistic philosophy of freedom
GIS-based landscape design research
Planting Peace
Romanticism and poetic autonomy
Definitions in Historical Archaeology
The Picturesque Oratorio
“A Riverside Estate” and the Dichotomy of the “Beautiful” and the “Picturesque”
Playing God in Small Spaces
China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770
Cheerful prospects and tranquil restoration
El bosque como templo de la filosofía
The Importance of the Chinese Connection
Visual Interpretations, Print, and Illustrations of Thomson's The Seasons , 1730 – 1797
The garden as a laboratory
Derzhavin's Ruins and the Birth of Historical Elegy
Botany for Gentlemen
Cultivating dead trees
Tourism and nostalgia for the pastoral on the island of Fyn, Denmark
Co-evolutions of planning and design
Green Seraglios
Views of the Taj--Figure in the Landscape
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2019 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |