| Edition |
[Second] paperback edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Previous edition: 2017. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the house of fiction's many windows -- 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 Christie's bloody house parties -- The glamour, horror and ennui of modern housing : Ian Fleming, J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes -- Looking backwards : the English country house through a post-modern lens. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-444) and index. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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Dwellings in literature.
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| ISBN |
9781783526932 (paperback) |
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1783526939 (paperback) |
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