1. John Ruskin, "All Carving and No Meat," Precious Thoughts (New York: John Wiley 1878), p. 78.

2. Annette Kolodny The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984), p. 3.

3. Angela Carter, "Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room," American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (London: Chatto and Windus, 1993), p. 127.

4. Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1990), p. 38.

5. Annette Kolodny The Land Before Her p. 48.

6. Carter, "Alice in Prague," p. 127.

7. Kata Phusin, "Art. I. The Poetry of Architecture: No.3. The Villa, I. The Mountain Villa - Lago di Como. (Continued.)," The Architectural Magazine (July 1838), v. 5, p. 292.

8. Phusin, "Art. I. The Poetry of Architecture," p. 293.

9. Kata Phusin "Art. II. The Poetry of Architecture: No.3. The Villa (Concluded), V. The British Villa, Hill, or Brown Country - Principles of Composition," Architectural Magazine (Dec 1838), v.5, p. 552.

10. "Ruskin, John," Encyclopaedia Britannica: Microp¾dia (Chicago: Encyclop¾dia Britannica, 1992), v. 10, p. 248.

11. Phusin, "The Poetry of Architecture," Architectural Magazine p. 66.

12. William Gilpin, Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel and on Sketching Landscape (London: R. Blamire, 1794), p. 47-48.

13. Raimonda Modiano "The Legacy of the Picturesque," The Politics of the Picturesque eds. S. Copley and P. Garside, (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 214, n. 3.

14. Modiano, "The Legacy of the Picturesque," p. 197.