barquentine
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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barquentine, or barkenteen, a vessel resembling a
barque but
square rigged on the foremast only, main and
mizzen having a
fore-and-aft rig.
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"Unnatural Unions": Picturesque Travel, Sexual Politics, and Working-Class Representation in "A Night Under Ground" and "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Magazine article from: Legacy; 4/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Under Ground," an erotically charged picturesque travel narrative detailing one woman...A Night Under Ground," like most picturesque narratives routinely offered to readers...concerns of the mid-nineteenth-century picturesque, Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in...
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"Unnatural unions": picturesque travel, sexual politics, and working-class representation in "A Night Under Ground" and "Life in the Iron-Mills".
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Under Ground" an erotically charged picturesque travel narrative detailing one woman...A Night Under Ground" like most picturesque narratives routinely offered to readers...concerns of the mid-nineteenth-century picturesque, Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in...
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Pretty as a picture: Australia and the imperial picturesque.(Fatal Shores)
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Today the word `picturesque' has become a useful way of saying...trite. To describe something as picturesque suggests a greater and more refined...as an aesthetic category, the picturesque never really escaped the circularity...
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The "vulgar thread of the canvas": revolution and the picturesque in Ann Eliza Bleecker, Crevecoeur, And Charles Brockden Brown.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...to locate the origin of an American picturesque landscape and to begin to trace its...important) Dennis Berthold, the American picturesque is defined, essentially, as an aesthetic...innovator, Nevius argues that through the picturesque the novelist created "a new convention...
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Stephen Copley and Peter Garside, eds., The Politics of the Picturesque.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Garside, eds., The Politics of the Picturesque (Cambridge UP, 1994), xiv + 304...sustained attention to studying the Picturesque knows, with the editors of this volume...powerful line in scholarship on the Picturesque has been that of ideological critique...
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Ron Broglio, Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Ron Broglio, Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments...Ron Broglio's Technologies of the Picturesque examines the effects of Romantic-era...foregrounds a critique not only of the picturesque habit of knowing and feeling "through...
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Seeing colonial America and writing home about it: Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia, epistolarity, and the feminine picturesque.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...scarcely ever been described in a picturesque narrative" (81); and the London Review judges that "the picturesque beauties of the province of New York...and effect" (122). (1) The picturesque quality of Euphemia shows us that...
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PICTURESQUE PERFECTION
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 05-15-1992 PICTURESQUE PERFECTION By John Zeaman, Record Art...conventions that became known as "the picturesque." Such notions did tend to result...Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque." In it, author and artist parodied...
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The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape.(Book review)
Magazine article from: ARIEL; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Susan Glickman. The Picturesque and the Sublime. "A Poetics of...Susan Glickman in her preface to The Picturesque and the Sublime. "A poet myself...contributions of European theories of the picturesque and the sublime to Canadian depictions...
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An apology for picturesque architecture.
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; We must generate a sense of the picturesque for the delight of the public while...from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties.'[1] But for Pugin (who...Jeffry Wyatville, that master of the picturesque, in his Gothic additions to Windsor...
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Picturesque
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PICTURESQUE PICTURESQUE. Use of the term "picturesque" has varied greatly since its emergence in the late seventeenth century, and its meaning has been frequently disputed. Ostensibly derived from the Italian pittoresco or the French pittoresque...
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picturesque
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
picturesque, a term which came into fashion in...certain kind of scenery. Writers on the picturesque include W. Gilpin , W. Mason , William...1829, who published Essays on the Picturesque , 1794), and the landscape gardener...
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Neo-Picturesque
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Neo-Picturesque. Revival of elements of the Picturesque in Britain in the 1940s, particularly associated with the retention of ruins after war-time bombing (e.g. Spence 's Coventry Cathedral (1950) ). In this sense it is, perhaps...
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Landscape Architecture
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...from the classical style and toward a picturesque aesthetic, Downing's book also revealed...Romanticism, itself of European origins, the picturesque style emphasized more natural landscapes...irregularity, and informality. The picturesque style played to America's growing...
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Nash, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...designer, and important architect of the Picturesque . He trained in the office of Sir Robert...and was initiated into the cult of the Picturesque. While there he designed the County...seats and grounds, enhancing their Picturesque qualities, before the partnership was...
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