In this free course, Brighton Pavilion, you will examine the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and its relationship to nineteenth-century Romanticism and exoticism. You'll begin with a biographical discussion of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Prince Regent and eventually King George IV, to whose specifications the Pavilion was built. With the help of video and still images you will take a tour of the Pavilion, examining the exterior then a series of interior rooms as a visitor in the 1820s may have experienced them. Besides this you will look at contemporary aesthetic, cultural and political reactions to the building, its contents and its social milieu.
Overview
Syllabus
- 1 The Royal Pavilion
- 1 The Royal Pavilion
- 2 A prince at the seaside
- 2 A prince at the seaside
- 3 From Enlightenment to Romantic?
- 3 From Enlightenment to Romantic?
- 4 ‘Chinese’ on the inside
- 4 ‘Chinese’ on the inside
- 5 ‘Indian’ on the outside
- 5 ‘Indian’ on the outside
- 6 The Pavilion and the picturesque
- 6 The Pavilion and the picturesque
- 7 Experiencing the exotic
- 7 Experiencing the exotic
- 8 How ‘Romantic’ is the Pavilion?
- 8 How ‘Romantic’ is the Pavilion?
- 9 What the world said – or, the politics of the exotic
- 9 What the world said – or, the politics of the exotic
- Next steps
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
