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Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts
James Anderson Winn
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Description for Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts
Hardback. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, richly illustrated with visual and musical examples, James Winn draws on works by Dryden, Pope, Purcell, Handel, Lely, Kneller, Wren, Vanbrugh, Addison, Swift, and many other artists to shed new light on the life and reign of Queen Anne (1665-1714). Num Pages: 816 pages, 35 black and white illustrations, 18 colour plates and 28 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 190 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1616.
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to ... Read more
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1615g
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199372195
SKU
V9780199372195
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About James Anderson Winn
James A. Winn is William Fairfield Warren Professor of English at Boston University. His six earlier books include Unsuspected Eloquence (1981), a groundbreaking history of the relations between poetry and music; John Dryden and His World (1987), a prize-winning biography; and The Poetry of War (2008), praised by one reviewer as a book "for anyone who cares about war and ... Read more
Reviews for Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts
riveting, indeed unputdownable, study of politics and the arts in her era
Essays in Criticism
Winn, Professor of English at Boston Univeristy, has produced a book of unparalleled depth and insight about a period still relatively neglected owing to the taint of Whig history with which it remains associated. He writes with the fluency, but not the Whig ... Read more
Essays in Criticism
Winn, Professor of English at Boston Univeristy, has produced a book of unparalleled depth and insight about a period still relatively neglected owing to the taint of Whig history with which it remains associated. He writes with the fluency, but not the Whig ... Read more