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019 $a1112545814
020 $a9781851244805$qhardback
020 $a1851244808$qhardback
035 $a(OCoLC)1121099422$z(OCoLC)1112545814
050 4 $aPR830.H65$bH37 2020
082 04 $a823.0093564$223
100 1 $aHardyment, Christina,$eauthor.
245 10 $aNovel houses :$btwenty famous fictional dwellings /$cChristina Hardyment.
264 1 $aOxford :$bBodleian Library,$c2020.
300 $a250 pages :$billustrations (colour) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aNovel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it.0We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how essential 221B Baker Street was to Sherlock Holmes and the importance of Bag End to the adventuring hobbits who called it home. It looks at why Bleak House is used as the name of a happy home and what was on Jane Austen's mind when she worked out the plot of Mansfield Park. Little-known background on the dwellings at the heart of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast and Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm emerges, and the real life settings of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and E.M. Forster's Howards End, so fundamental to their stories, are shown to relate closely to their authors' passions and preoccupations. 0A winning combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses grand and small, imagined and real, or unique and ordinary, play in their continuing popularity.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHome in literature.
650 0 $aDwellings in literature.
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