English Landscape: The Picturesque - Malcolm Andrews

0:00 // Introduction: What Does the English Landscape Mean in 2017? 1:25 // The Iconic Image: Thatched Cottages, Hedgerows and Rolling Hills 3:13 // Edward Thomas: Fighting for This Handful of Earth 5:04 // Jane Austen's Emma: English Comfort, English Culture 8:02 // Donwell Abbey: A House That Looked What It Was 9:34 // Horace Walpole and the Natural English Garden Against French Formality 12:07 // Sense and Sensibility: Edward Ferrars vs Marianne's Picturesque Taste 16:25 // William Gilpin: The Man Who Invented Picturesque Tourism 19:06 // Observations on the River Wye: Teaching Britain to See Its Landscape 21:00 // Nature Corrected: When You Add Trees to Fix a View 23:46 // Pride and Prejudice: Mocking the Picturesque with a Walk 25:10 // The Moral vs Picturesque Eye: Gilpin's Troubling Separation 28:29 // Tintern Abbey and the Mallet: Vandalism as Aesthetic Improvement 35:46 // Wars With France and the Turn Inward to Native Scenery 40:00 // English Gardening as a Political Statement 43:55 // Constructing Englishness Against France: Natural, Sincere, Manly 49:00 // Gilpin's Discovery: Hedgerows Make England Uniquely Beautiful 52:30 // Conclusion: Variety, Comfort and the Wild — England in One View The late eighteenth and early nineteenth- century vogue for the Picturesque and for forging an English landscaping tradition (with frameable landscape scenery and managed wildness) will be the starting point for discussion. Proponents of the Picturesque, preferring to explore British scenery rather than go on the European Grand Tour, explicitly cultivated notions of Englishness and stress the native elements in landscape scenery, such as castle or abbey ruins (real or folly) in grand gardens, not classical temples. This event was on Wed, 25 Oct 2017 Malcolm Andrews is Professor (Emeritus) of Victorian and Visual Studies, University of Kent. He was the Editor of The Dickensian, the journal of the Dickens Fellowship, and a past President of the Dickens Society of America. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/e... Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/ Website: https://gresham.ac.uk Twitter:   / greshamcollege   Facebook:   / greshamcollege   Instagram:   / greshamcollege