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- catalog abstract "Andrew Jackson Downing's reputation as architect, landscape designer, and author spread far beyond his native Hudson River Valley during the first half of the 19th century. But as Adam Sweeting suggests in this elegantly written, illustrated account, Downing's real legacy lies in the philosophical statement he created by melding the literary and building arts with an intensely moralistic outlook. Along with such contemporaries as William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and Frederick Law Olmsted, Downing pursued what Sweeting calls genteel romanticism, an ideal that viewed the confluence of polite literature and graceful dwellings as not just an aesthetic statement, but an ethical imperative. This study of a unique coalescence of literature, architecture, and gardening illuminates "the widely held belief that efforts to reform the world began at home, that beautiful and clean houses produced morally beautiful and spiritually clean people."".
- catalog contributor b8860884.
- catalog coverage "Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Along with such contemporaries as William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and Frederick Law Olmsted, Downing pursued what Sweeting calls genteel romanticism, an ideal that viewed the confluence of polite literature and graceful dwellings as not just an aesthetic statement, but an ethical imperative.".
- catalog description "Andrew Jackson Downing's reputation as architect, landscape designer, and author spread far beyond his native Hudson River Valley during the first half of the 19th century. But as Adam Sweeting suggests in this elegantly written, illustrated account, Downing's real legacy lies in the philosophical statement he created by melding the literary and building arts with an intensely moralistic outlook.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. "The Imperfections of Our Nature": Downing's Landscapes and the Picturesque -- Ch. 2. "For Convenience and Comfort": Downing's Architectural Pattern Books -- Ch. 3. Framing the Restless Mirror: The Hudson River and the Genteel Aesthetic -- Ch. 4. "A More Beautiful and Tasteful Model": Architecture, Morality, and Gentility -- Ch. 5. "A Very Pleasant Patriarchal Life": The Homes of the Genteel Romantics -- Ch. 6. The Stage Comes to Life: The Socialization of Genteel Aesthetics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.[190]-197) and index.".
- catalog description "This study of a unique coalescence of literature, architecture, and gardening illuminates "the widely held belief that efforts to reform the world began at home, that beautiful and clean houses produced morally beautiful and spiritually clean people."".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Reading houses and building books.".
- catalog identifier "0874517508 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Reading houses and building books.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hanover : University Press of New England,".
- catalog relation "Reading houses and building books.".
- catalog spatial "Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.309 20".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Architecture and literature History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Homes and haunts Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)".
- catalog subject "Books and reading United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture United States.".
- catalog subject "PS253.N7 S94 1996".
- catalog subject "Popular literature United States History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. "The Imperfections of Our Nature": Downing's Landscapes and the Picturesque -- Ch. 2. "For Convenience and Comfort": Downing's Architectural Pattern Books -- Ch. 3. Framing the Restless Mirror: The Hudson River and the Genteel Aesthetic -- Ch. 4. "A More Beautiful and Tasteful Model": Architecture, Morality, and Gentility -- Ch. 5. "A Very Pleasant Patriarchal Life": The Homes of the Genteel Romantics -- Ch. 6. The Stage Comes to Life: The Socialization of Genteel Aesthetics.".
- catalog title "Reading houses and building books : Andrew Jackson Downing and the architecture of popular antebellum literature, 1835-1855 / Adam W. Sweeting.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".