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Contents

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Building Stories: Writing about Architecture in Post-Reformation England

1 Loss and Foundations: Camden’s Britannia and the Histories of English Architecture

2 Aristocrats and Architects: Henry Wotton and the Country House Poem

3 Strange Anthologies: The Alchemist in the London of John Stow

4 Restoring “The Church-porch”: George Herbert’s Architectural History

5 Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford’s Diaries

6 Recollections: John Evelyn and the Histories of Restoration Architecture

Coda: St. Helen’s Bishopsgate: Antiquarianism and Aesthetics in Modern London

Notes

Bibliography

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