Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Hardcover

Reynolds, Nicole

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ISBN 10: 0472117319 ISBN 13: 9780472117314

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2010

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"Building Romanticism is engaging, closely argued, and well written. It will be a valuable addition to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship that considers the built environment and its role in constructing relationships and worldviews both real and imagined."
---Barbara Penner, Bartlett School of Architecture

"This insightful book will dramatically influence our appreciation of the spaces and places involved in ‘built' environments, both in Romantic-era culture and in its Victorian aftermath,...

About the Author

Nicole Reynolds is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University.

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"Bold and intelligent ... Reynolds's readings of these weirdly contradictory spaces and texts is subtle and attentive."
—Times Literary Supplement

(Simon Bradley Times Literary Supplement 2011-08-19)

"[Reynolds'] study persuasively suggests that studying the literary nature of architecture and the spatial nature of literature helps highlight contested notions of a gendered and nationalized subject."
—Eighteenth Century Fiction

(Rachel Ramsey Eighteenth Century Fiction 2012-09-20)

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