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Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity and national identity in early modern England. The book offers an original take on gardens by including medical and colonial discourse and by considering the perspective of ecocriticism.
Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Gardens, English, in literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History and criticism. --- History
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"As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham's patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship." (cover - p. 4).
Masques, English --- History and criticism. --- Buckingham, George Villiers, --- Stuart, House of. --- Buckingham, George Villiers --- Baron Whaddon --- Viscount Villiers --- Art collections. --- Great Britain --- History --- Court and courtiers --- Kings and rulers --- Painting --- Villiers, George --- anno 1600-1699 --- Buckingham, --- Villars, George, --- Villiers, George,
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