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Title: |
The English Country House in Literature |
| Sub-title: |
A Critical Selection |
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| Introduction by: |
Peter Groves Edited by: Geoffrey G. Hiller |
| ISBN10-13: |
1922235296 : 9781922235299 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
234x156mm |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - January 2015 |
| List Price: |
39.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
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| Subjects: |
Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| This anthology brings together some of the finest writing in English on the subject of the English country house. As the collection demonstrates, people shape their houses and their houses shape them. The various glimpses that the extracts provide of the country house â its architecture, its garden, the well-being of its servants and tenants, the hospitality (or lack of it) that its guests experience, the extent of the â paternalismâ in the running of the estate â all in some way reflect the character of the owners. The huge ostentatious villa of Popeâ s Timon reflects the vulgar pretension of its owner, just as the noble house and demesne of Beaumanoir is a home befitting the cultured and hospitable Lord Henry Sydney of Disraeliâ s Coningsby. Each extract has a short introduction that provides its context, indicates salient details, and suggests something of the larger workâ s enduring value. |
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“Hiller's anthology imbues a modem reader with the facility to study the ideologies, social functioning, and decline of these institutions, in order to consider why country houses have endured. The English country house continues to live large in the collective imagination, and Hiller's work offers an apt way for a reader to consider the boundaries between mythology, nostalgia, and history.” Sarah Dempster, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia. Feb 2016
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