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The image of antiquity : ancient Britain and the romantic imagination
- Title
- The image of antiquity : ancient Britain and the romantic imagination / Sam Smiles.
- Author
- Smiles, Sam.
- Publication
- New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Description
- x, 252 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Subject
- To 449
- Prehistoric peoples > Great Britain > Historiography
- Celts > Great Britain > Historiography
- Druids and druidism > Historiography
- Romanticism > Great Britain
- Britons > Historiography
- Art, British
- Druids and Druidism > Historiography
- Antiquities
- Celts > Historiography
- Historiography
- Prehistoric peoples > Historiography
- Romanticism
- Beeldende kunsten
- Historisme
- Oudheid
- Great Britain > History > Historiography. > To 449
- Great Britain > Antiquities
- Great Britain > In art
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History
- Art.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-247) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Domain of Antiquity -- 2. The Past and its Meanings -- 3. Northern Heroes and National Identity -- 4. The Bards of Britain -- 5. The Druids -- 6. Ancestors and Others: The Origins of England -- 7. The Image of the Briton -- 8. The Megalithic Landscape -- 9. Garden Design and the Prehistoric Past -- 10. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0300058144
- 9780300058147
- LCCN
- 94009935
- OCLC
- ocm30070719
- 30070719
- SCSB-9631940
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library