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Romantic Moderns - English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-awardwinning book now available in paperback Alexandra Harris tells a different ...Show more
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism.While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In thi ...Show more
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris
$50.00 AUD
$75.00 (33% off)
Category: British
An ancient church sheltering a medieval anchorite who chose to be buried alive. The country estate parading a menagerie of exotic animals. The cottage where William Blake received the poetic spirit of Milton. A safe house harbouring secret agents from wartime French resistance networks. When the celebr ...Show more
The Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. During the 1930s and 1940s, a rich network of cultural and personal encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance, with English artists explor ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Alexandra Harris' hugely acclaimed book "Romantic Moderns" (winner of the 2010 "Guardian" First Book Award) overturned our picture of modernist culture during the interwar years. In this, her second book, she brings her attention to one of the towering figures of literary modernism. It is an intensely p ...Show more
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris
$20.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and pa ...Show more
Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as the story of changing ideas about the weather. Writers and artists across the centuries, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things. In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to wit ...Show more
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