House of fiction
Subtitle: from Pemberley to Brideshead, great British houses in literature and life
By: Phyllis Richardson
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781783523801
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: English fiction; Architecture in literature; Dwellings in literature; History and criticism; Home in literature; Country homes in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shandy Hall: the birth of the house in fiction; title: Strawberry Hill: the invention of the gothic novel; title: Pride and property: women and houses in Regency England; title: Ancient and romantic: Walter Scott's baronial halls; title: Madwoman in the attic, author in the dining room: the haunts of Charlotte Brontë; title: Charles Dickens: a child's view of home; title: For the love of an English cottage: Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster; title: The house as a work of art: the aesthetic visions of John Galsworthy and Henry James; title: Rooms of her own: Virginia Woolf's houses of memory; title: Inheritance and loss: war and the great English estates; title: Gothic house redux: the passion of Manderley, Agatha Christies's bloody house parties; title: The glamour, horror, ennui of modern housing: Ian Fleming, J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes; title: Looking backwards: the English country house through a post-modern lens.