From the Temple to the Castle

By examining the connections between literature and architecture in the work of writers and by viewing architecture in literary terms, Lee Morrissey traces a narrative of cultural change in the Augustan Age and beyond.
Each chapter establishes a connection with architecture in the careers of an author and then describes how a principal text - Paradise Lost, The Provok'd Wife, An Essay on Man, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and The Castle of Otranto - focuses the literary and historical issues of the period in architectural terms.

Lee Morrissey is Assistant Professor of English in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities at Clemson University.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Literature and Architecture	p. 1
"Truth Is a Just and Naturall Proportion": Milton, Wotton, and Renaissance Architectural Theory	p. 17
"Against the Too Exact Observance of the Rules": Vanbrugh's Political Struggle over Aesthetic Form	p. 40
"The Utmost Grace of Uniformity": Pope's Anglo-Palladian Epic	p. 62
"Approach and Read the Stone": Toward an Archaeology of Gray's "Elegy"	p. 81
"To Invent in Art and Folly": Walpole's Castle of Otranto	p. 108
Coda: On Literary and Architectural Form	p. 131
Notes	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 173
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From the Temple to the Castle

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