From the publisher’s description:
Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture. "A sumptuous book… Clearly and gracefully written and cogently argued, Roston’s admirable achievement is of paramount significance to literary studies, to cultural and art history, and to aesthetics… Outstanding."-Choice
Roston, Murray (NHC Fellow, 1985–86). Changing Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, 1650-1820. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN 9780691067957.