東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Character in Eighteenth and Nineteen...

Ruddick, Gabrielle.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Character in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architecture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Character in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architecture./
Author:	Ruddick, Gabrielle.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	232 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-12A.
Subject:	Landscape architecture. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30423631
ISBN:	9798379751074

Character in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architecture.
Ruddick, Gabrielle.

Character in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architecture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 232 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2023.

This dissertation is a hermeneutic close reading of a single term-character. The term quickly became prominent at the end of the eighteenth century in landscape and architecture writing in English, but it did not have a clear definition at the time, and it has not yet been the subject of an extensive study to explicate its meaning. This study approached the problem through the selection of four exemplar authors, Thomas Whately, Humphry Repton, John Ruskin, and A.J. Downing, who produced some of the period's most significant writing that employs the term. Every single use of the word character in works by these authors was evaluated for its meaning, either as defined or as suggested by context. From this extremely granular study, a system of connotations was derived. Three primary glosses of character, all pointing to different aspects of landscape and architecture, were in use, often at the same time and in the same works. I have called these connotations: enthrallment character, which is related to the moods that arise from a landscape or garden and has its roots in the British aesthetic tradition; accommodation character, which is used to describe the qualities of a place that signal that it meets domestic purposes comfortably; and identity character, which is the belief in a congruity between the character of inhabitants themselves and the character of their habitations. Chapters devoted to each connotation elaborate the substructure of the term, as usage reveals that authors had a concrete sense of what elements or dynamics in a landscape or building generate each kind of character. The three distinct meanings, with their own specific internal rules for generation, are united, however, by their structural dependence on propriety, specifically the notion of things fitting together appropriately. The mechanisms of propriety assure that character is legible and experienceable, even for the lay inhabitant.

ISBN: 9798379751074Subjects--Topical Terms:

541842
Landscape architecture.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Nineteenth century landscape

Character in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architecture.
LDR:03134nmm a2200409 4500 001 2401354
005 20241022112555.5
006 m o d
007 cr#unu||||||||
008 251215s2023 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9798379751074
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI30423631
035 $a AAI30423631
035 $a 2401354
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Ruddick, Gabrielle. $3 3771446
245 1 0 $a Character in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architecture.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2023
300 $a 232 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Leatherbarrow, David.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2023.
520 $a This dissertation is a hermeneutic close reading of a single term-character. The term quickly became prominent at the end of the eighteenth century in landscape and architecture writing in English, but it did not have a clear definition at the time, and it has not yet been the subject of an extensive study to explicate its meaning. This study approached the problem through the selection of four exemplar authors, Thomas Whately, Humphry Repton, John Ruskin, and A.J. Downing, who produced some of the period's most significant writing that employs the term. Every single use of the word character in works by these authors was evaluated for its meaning, either as defined or as suggested by context. From this extremely granular study, a system of connotations was derived. Three primary glosses of character, all pointing to different aspects of landscape and architecture, were in use, often at the same time and in the same works. I have called these connotations: enthrallment character, which is related to the moods that arise from a landscape or garden and has its roots in the British aesthetic tradition; accommodation character, which is used to describe the qualities of a place that signal that it meets domestic purposes comfortably; and identity character, which is the belief in a congruity between the character of inhabitants themselves and the character of their habitations. Chapters devoted to each connotation elaborate the substructure of the term, as usage reveals that authors had a concrete sense of what elements or dynamics in a landscape or building generate each kind of character. The three distinct meanings, with their own specific internal rules for generation, are united, however, by their structural dependence on propriety, specifically the notion of things fitting together appropriately. The mechanisms of propriety assure that character is legible and experienceable, even for the lay inhabitant.
590 $a School code: 0175.
650 4 $a Landscape architecture. $3 541842
653 $a Nineteenth century landscape
653 $a English
653 $a Writing
653 $a Authors
653 $a Connotations
653 $a Landscape
653 $a Inhabitant
690 $a 0390
690 $a 0729
710 2 $a University of Pennsylvania. $b Architecture. $3 2095402
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 84-12A.
790 $a 0175
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2023
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30423631