Thesis
‘Every Age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage’: art and the sacred journey in Britain, c. 1790 – 1850
- Abstract:
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This thesis examines the intersections of the concept of pilgrimage and the visual imagination in Britain from the years 1790 to 1850. Historically, distinctions between understandings of pilgrimage as motif, metaphor, artistic process, and actual journey have been blurred to varying degrees, resulting in the creation of images that were at once narratives, memorials, and stimuli for contemplative journeys from pictorial space to imagination. In the first half of the nineteenth century, relig...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Garnett, J
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Kemp, M
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6274
- Deposit date:
- 2012-06-01
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Kathryn Barush
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- This thesis is not available in ORA.
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