Research Catalog

Title

Letters of a dead man / Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau, author ; Linda Parshall, editor and translator.

Author

Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von, 1785-1871

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2016]
• ©2016

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

• Parshall, Linda B.
• Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau.
• Foundation for Landscape Studies.
• Dumbarton Oaks, issuing body.

Description

xlv, 753 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plan; 28 cm.

Summary

"In 1826, the prince of Pückler-Muskau embarked on a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. Although captivated by all things British, his initial objective was to find a wealthy bride. He and his wife Lucie, having expended every resource on a plan to transform their estate into a vast landscape park, agreed to an amicable divorce, freeing him to forge an advantageous alliance that could rescue their project. For over two years, Pückler’s letters home conveyed a vivid, often quirky, and highly entertaining account of his travels. From the metropolis of London, he toured the mines and factories of the Industrial Revolution and visited the grand estates and spectacular art collections maintained by its beneficiaries. He encountered the scourge of rural and urban poverty and found common cause with the oppressed Irish. With his gift for description, Pückler evokes the spectacular landscapes of Wales, the perils of transportation, and the gentle respite of manor houses and country inns. Part memoir, part travelogue and political commentary, part epistolary novel, Pückler’s rhetorical flare and acute observations provoked the German poet Heinrich Heine to characterize him as the 'most fashionable of eccentric men—Diogenes on horseback.'"--

Series Statement

Ex horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies

Uniform Title

• Briefe eines Verstorbenen. English
• Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies

Alternative Title

Briefe eines Verstorbenen.

Subject

• Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von, 1785-1871 > Correspondence
• Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von, 1785-1871
• 1800 - 1899
• Authors, German > 19th century > Correspondence
• Authors, German > 19th century > Biography
• Landscape architects > Germany > Correspondence
• Authors, German
• Great Britain > Description and travel
• Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
• France > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Records and correspondence
• Records and correspondence.
• Briefsammlung
• Briefsammlung 1826-1829

Note

• "This is the first unabridged English translation of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau's Briefe eines Verstorbenen. It is based on the original four-volume German publication, except that here the chronological order has been restored...."--Page xli.
• "This translation restores all of [Sarah] Austin's ommissions and palliations [in her 1832 English-language translation of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau letters entitled Tour in England, Ireland, and France in the years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829]."--Page xlii.
• "Published in association with the Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau and the Foundation for Landscape Studies, New York."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letters of A dead man -- First Preface by the editor -- List of letters and topics -- Letters 1-48 -- Second Preface by the editor -- Postscript.

ISBN

• 9780884024118
• 0884024113

LCCN

^^2015021791

OCLC

• 921102504
• SCSB-11349601

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library