Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

by James Potter

In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and the widespread production of historical plays. Historical buildings, in themselves already of intense interest to people of the day, also found their way into the multiplying cultural forms as concrete presences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803217439
• ISBN13: 9780803217430
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"