An edition of House of fiction
(2017)
House of fiction
from Pemberley to Brideshead, great British houses in literature and life
by Phyllis Richardson
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"Phyllis Richardson takes readers on a journey through history to discover how authors’ personal experiences of houses and home life helped to shape the imaginative dwellings that have become icons of English literature...Using historic sources, authors’ biographies, letters and published news accounts, as well as the novels themselves, The House of Fiction presents some of the most influential houses in Britain through the stories they inspired, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life"--
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House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
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2017
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Table of Contents
Shandy Hall: the birth of the house in fiction
Strawberry Hill: the invention of the gothic novel
Pride and property: women and houses in Regency England
Ancient and romantic: Walter Scott's baronial halls
Madwoman in the attic, author in the dining room: the haunts of Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens: a child's view of home
For the love of an English cottage: Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster
The house as a work of art: the aesthetic visions of John Galsworthy and Henry James
Rooms of her own: Virginia Woolf's houses of memory
Inheritance and loss: war and the great English estates
Gothic house redux: the passion of Manderley, Agatha Christies's bloody house parties
The glamour, horror, ennui of modern housing: Ian Fleming, J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes
Looking backwards: the English country house through a post-modern lens.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-444) and index.
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