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Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies
Alexandra Harris
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Description for Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies
Paperback. An account English weather, which is at the very heart of English life and culture, as it is experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually. It catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: 'Bloody cold', says Jonathan Swift in the 'slobbery' January of 1713; Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 33. Weight in Grams: 482.
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and paintings. Alexandra Harris's subject is not the weather itself, but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination. She builds her remarkable story from small evocative details and catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: `Bloody cold', says Jonathan Swift in the ... Read more
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and paintings. Alexandra Harris's subject is not the weather itself, but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination. She builds her remarkable story from small evocative details and catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: `Bloody cold', says Jonathan Swift in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500292655
SKU
V9780500292655
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About Alexandra Harris
Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. ... Read more
Reviews for Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies
' years to come may be the last of English weather . If so, there is consolation in the thought that the damp glory of our island climate will live on in the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Constable and Turner' - Daily Mail 'Splendid ... its glory is in the detail, in its recording of facts and lives, atmospheres and ... Read more