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Landscapes of London: The City, the Country, and the Suburbs, 1660-1840
Professor Elizabeth McKellar
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Hardback. The idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In this book, the author traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying areas. It shows London as the forerunner of the complex, multifaceted modern cities of today. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 120 black-&-white illustrations + 24 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AMVD; AMX; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 294 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1634.
The idea of a Greater London emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying areas. This transitional zone was occupied and shaped by the urban middle class as much as by the elite who built villas there. McKellar provides the first major interdisciplinary cultural history of this area, analyzing it in relation to key architectural and planning debates and to concepts of national, social, and gender identities. She draws on a wide range of source materials, including prints, paintings, maps, poetry, songs, newspapers, guidebooks, and other popular literature, as well as buildings and landscapes. The author suggests that these suburban landscapes-the first in the world-were a new environment, but one in which the vernacular, the rustic, and the historic played a substantial part. This fascinating investigation shows London as the forerunner of the complex, multifaceted modern cities of today.
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Condition
New
Weight
1634g
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300109139
SKU
V9780300109139
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Ref
99-21
About Professor Elizabeth McKellar
Elizabeth McKellar is senior lecturer and staff tutor in the history of art, Open University.
Reviews for Landscapes of London: The City, the Country, and the Suburbs, 1660-1840
Winner of the 2017 Elisabeth MacDougall Book Award by the Society of Architecture Historians.
Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award
Society of Architectural Historians
This book, a major contribution to cultural history, establishes that a suburban culture existed in London's rural-urban interface much earlier than the early-19th-century time period posited by conventional scholarship. McKellar employs a variety of sources, including guidebooks, art, music, and literature, to document the culture of the inhabitants of the suburban landscape that emerged in this zone in the 17th century. -E.H. Teague, CHOICE
E.H. Teague
CHOICE
`That rare thing, a scholarly volume of interest to the non-specialist. Tracing suburbia since the 17th century, McKellar shows historic London as the forerunner of today's culturally and architecturally complex, multi-faceted cities; she made me look at the layers of the city I thought I knew with fresh eyes.'-Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times
Jackie Wullschlager
Financial Times
Book of the Year, TLS
TLS
Elizabeth McKellar is one of the most perceptive and sensible of architectural historians, and she understands London like few others. Her new book Landscapes of London will be important because we now know so much architectural innovation stemmed from cities and the mercantile classes that lived in them. -Simon Thurley, BBC History Magazine
Simon Thurley
BBC History Magazine
Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award
Society of Architectural Historians
This book, a major contribution to cultural history, establishes that a suburban culture existed in London's rural-urban interface much earlier than the early-19th-century time period posited by conventional scholarship. McKellar employs a variety of sources, including guidebooks, art, music, and literature, to document the culture of the inhabitants of the suburban landscape that emerged in this zone in the 17th century. -E.H. Teague, CHOICE
E.H. Teague
CHOICE
`That rare thing, a scholarly volume of interest to the non-specialist. Tracing suburbia since the 17th century, McKellar shows historic London as the forerunner of today's culturally and architecturally complex, multi-faceted cities; she made me look at the layers of the city I thought I knew with fresh eyes.'-Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times
Jackie Wullschlager
Financial Times
Book of the Year, TLS
TLS
Elizabeth McKellar is one of the most perceptive and sensible of architectural historians, and she understands London like few others. Her new book Landscapes of London will be important because we now know so much architectural innovation stemmed from cities and the mercantile classes that lived in them. -Simon Thurley, BBC History Magazine
Simon Thurley
BBC History Magazine