God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

617 Pages·2009·3.24 MB·English

by  Rosemary Hill

God’s Architect
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rosemary hill
God’s Architect
Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund.
Published in the United States in 2009by Yale University Press.
Published in the United Kingdom in 2007by Allen Lane,
an imprint of Penguin Books.
Copyright © 2007by Rosemary Hill.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2008934807
ISBN 978-0-300-15161-9(hardcover : alk. paper)
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WilliamWordsworth,ThePrelude,
BookIII,ll.125–9
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Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Prologue 1
Part One
1 Auguste Charles Pugin 9
2 Catherine Welby 23
3 The Microcosm of London: 1802to 1812 32
Part Two
4 Waverley: 1812to 1821 45
5 ‘My first design’: 1821to 1824 57
6 Metropolitan Improvements: 1824to 1826 63
7 The King’s Pleasure: 1827 71
8 Beginning the World:October 1827to July 1831 77
9 A Very Short Courtship: July 1831to May 1832 91
10 ‘Gothic for ever’: June 1832to April 1833 101
Part Three
11 Beginning the World Again: May 1833to
October 1834 111
12 The New World Begun:October 1834to May 1835 130
13 Salisbury and Sarum: Summer 1835 139
14 Contrasts: Summer 1835to August 1836 145
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Part Four
15 EntreDeuxGuerres:Autumn1836 163
16 RomanticCatholics 169
17 TheProfessorofEcclesiasticalAntiquities:1837 177
18 ‘Myfirstchurch’:July1837toMay1838 186
19 BirminghamandOxford:May1838toMay1839 198
20 YoungVictorians:May1839toFebruary1840 212
21 AVisionforEngland:MarchtoDecember1840 226
22 TruePrinciplesandTractXC:1841 240
23 ReunionandDivision:1842 261
24 AShiftintheWind:JanuarytoSeptember1843 277
25 TheGrange,Ramsgate:SeptembertoDecember1843 291
26 AReturnofGrief:JanuarytoAugust1844 297
Part Five
27 TheNewHouseandtheNewPalace:Autumn
andWinter1844 311
28 TheNewLife:December1844toApril1845 325
29 ABattleofWills:MaytoOctober1845 335
30 EntreDeuxFemmes:October1845toJune1846 347
31 ImprovingtheTasteofYoungEngland:June1846
toFebruary1847 358
32 TheHouseofLords:FebruarytoAutumn1847 367
33 ManyHands:Autumn1847 378
34 HelenLumsdaine:December1847toMay1848 387
35 ‘Oneaffectionateheart’:Mayto10August1848 397
Part Six
36 ‘AfirstrateGothicwoman’:11August1848to
August1849 407
37 DesignfortheMiddlingSort:September1849
toJanuary1850 423
38 TheHighVictorians:1850 432
39 TheGreatExhibition:JanuarytoOctober1851 453
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40 TheWholeMachineryoftheClock:October1851
toFebruary1852 471
41 BethlemandRamsgate:26Februaryto
September1852 484
Epilogue 492
Abbreviations 499
ListofWorks 500
SelectBibliography 529
Notes 536
Acknowledgements 579
Index 581
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