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Gardens, Manners, and William Jay: Savannah's Romantic Spirit

Gardens, Manners, and William Jay: Savannah's Romantic Spirit

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Date of Lecture

9-4-2014

Keywords

Armstrong State University, A Moveable Feast

Description of Lecture

In conjunction with the Telfair Academy’s exhibit, Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth- Century Paintings from the Johnson Collection, Early American historian Christopher E. Hendricks will examine how this exciting age reshaped Savannah’s landscape, society, and architecture. With the dawn of the nineteenth century, the city of Savannah found itself on the cusp of great change as it developed from a provincial colonial capital to a thriving and nationally important port city. Accompanying this shift was an equally exciting revolution in culture as Americans joined their European cousins in revolting against the rationality of the eighteenthcentury in favor of emotional responses to experiences as they expressed themselves through literature, music, and the visual arts.

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September 4, 2014, 6:00 pm The Telfair Museum, 121 Barnard St.

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