The Country House Revisited
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The Country House Revisited
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Author : Tereza Topolovská
language : en
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
The Country House Revisited written by Tereza Topolovská and has been published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
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Author : Tereza Topolovská (author)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
The Country House Revisited written by Tereza Topolovská (author) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.
The Country House Revisited
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Author : Tereza Topolovská
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Country House Revisited written by Tereza Topolovská and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
The Country House
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Author : John Galsworthy
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12-27
The Country House written by John Galsworthy and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-27 with Fiction categories.
John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His most notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. The Country House was published in 1907.
The Country House Revealed
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Author : Dan Cruickshank
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-31
The Country House Revealed written by Dan Cruickshank and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with History categories.
Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the stories of these houses tell the story of our nation. All are the are buildings of the greatest architectural interest, each with a fascinating human story to tell, and all remain private homes that are closed to the public. But their owners have opened their doors and allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors and rummage in the cellars as he teases out the story of each house - who built them, the generations who lived in them, and the families who lost them. Along the way he has uncovered tales of excess and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, power and ambition. And as these intriguing narratives take shape, Dan shows how the story of each house is inseparable from the social and economic history of Britain. Each one is built as a wave of economic development crests, or crumbles. Each one's architecture and design is thus expressive of the aims, strengths and frailties of those who built them. Together they plot the psychological, economic and social route map of our country's ruling class in a rich new telling of our island story.
Country House Rescue
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Country House Rescue written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
Renowned businesswoman Ruth Watson returns for a second series, seeking to save more of the country's most beautiful private homes from ruin by providing their owners with no-nonsense advice. Ruth visits eight British stately homes and guides each of the owners on how to diversify and raise revenue, and ultimately secure the future of their unique properties for generations to come.
Sarah Waters
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Author : Kaye Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Sarah Waters written by Kaye Mitchell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Leading scholars explore the work of Sarah Waters from a full range of critical perspectives. Includes a new interview with the author.
Politics And The English Country House 1688 1800
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Author : Joan Coutu
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2023-02-15
Politics And The English Country House 1688 1800 written by Joan Coutu and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-15 with History categories.
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.
The Great Good Place
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Author : Malcolm Miles Kelsall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Great Good Place written by Malcolm Miles Kelsall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Country homes categories.
The Long Weekend
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Author : Adrian Tinniswood
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-06-02
The Long Weekend written by Adrian Tinniswood and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-02 with History categories.
'A masterpiece of social history' Daily Mail There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In The Long Weekend, Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, The Long Weekend gives a voice to the people who inhabited this world and shows how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs, and how the reality was so much more interesting than the dream.