Castle Howard

Castle Howard

£20.00

NAJ 29/30 (1990). A5 book, 128 pp., 77 illustrations

The Whig and gender politics of the Howard dynasty within a landscape of heroic Virgilian poetry at Castle Howard, North Yorkshire

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Illustrations:

Chris Broughton (plus Cover, above), Howard EaglestoneIan GardnerCaroline JonesGrahame JonesTim PomeroyJack Sloan.

Texts:

~ Patrick Eyres. Introduction.
Jack Sloan. Reminiscences of a Tour through an Emblematic Landscape.
Patrick Eyres. Landscape as Political Manifesto (the Whig iconographic agenda).
Wendy Frith. Dynastic and Sexual Politics (analysis of Ray Wood in particular).
Patrick Eyres. Poetic Continuity and The Continuing Sublime (a meditation stimulated by the Paestum glade and the Mausoleum).