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The Country House Revisited
Author | : Tereza Topolovská |
Publsiher | : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788024636726 |
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This monograph provides an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with a focus on the works of E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Iris Murdoch, Alan Hollinghurst, and Sarah Waters. The country house is explored within the wider social and cultural contexts of the period, including contemporary architectural development. The variety of literary depictions of the country house reflects the physical diversification of buildings which can be classified as such, from smaller variants to formerly grand residences on the brink of physical collapse. Within the scope of contemporary fiction, architecture and poetics of space, the country house, given its uniquely integrating and exceptionally evocative qualities, accentuates different conceptions of dwelling. Consequently, literary portrayals of the country house can be seen as both prefiguring and reflecting the contemporary practice of living.
The Country House Revisited
Author | : Tereza Topolovská (author) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 8024642328 |
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The Country House Revisited
Author | : Tereza Topolovská |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 8024636964 |
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Politics and the English Country House 1688 1800
Author | : Joan Coutu,Jon Stobart,Peter N. Lindfield |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780228014973 |
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Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.
Sarah Waters
Author | : Kaye Mitchell |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441199416 |
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Leading scholars explore the work of Sarah Waters from a full range of critical perspectives. Includes a new interview with the author.
The Uninvited Guests
Author | : Sadie Jones |
Publsiher | : Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307402554 |
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It's rural England, just after the turn of the last century. Charlotte married Edward Shift after the sudden death of her first husband, Horace Torrington. They live at Sterne, the home they are in danger of losing due to a financial crisis, with Charlotte's 3 children: Emerald, Clovis and Smudge. On the day of Emerald's birthday party, a terrible train wreck occurs on a branch line and the stranded passengers seek refuge at Sterne. Among these passengers is Charlie Traversham-Beechers, a sketchy figure from Charlotte's past. This unusual guest list makes for an unforgettable birthday celebration for Emerald and an evening of the past literally coming back to haunt Charlotte.
The Country Houses of Shropshire
Author | : Gareth Williams |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 761 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Architecture and society |
ISBN | : 9781783275397 |
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A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them.
The Victorian Country House
Author | : Mark Girouard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0300034725 |
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A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible