House of Fiction
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House of Fiction

From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

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House of Fiction

From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

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From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.

We encounter Jane Austen drinking 'too much wine' in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf's love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder's return to Brideshead.

Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.

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Publisher
Unbound
Year
2017
ISBN
9781783523818
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. By the Same Author
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction The House of Fiction’s many Windows
  7. One Shandy Hall the Birth of the House in Fiction
  8. Two Strawberry Hill the Invention of the Gothic Novel
  9. Three Pride and Property Women and Houses in Regency England
  10. Four Ancient and Romantic Walter Scott’s Baronial Halls
  11. Five Madwoman in the Attic, Author in the Dining Room the Haunts of Charlotte Brontë
  12. Six Charles Dickens A Child’s View of Home
  13. Seven For the Love of an English Cottage Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster
  14. Eight The House as a Work of Art the Aesthetic Visions of John Galsworthy and Henry James
  15. Nine Rooms of Her Own Virginia Woolf’s Houses of Memory
  16. Ten Inheritance and Loss War and the Great English Estates
  17. Eleven Gothic House Redux the Passion of Manderley, Agatha Christie’s Bloody House Parties
  18. Twelve The Glamour, Horror and Ennui of Modern Housing Ian Fleming, J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes
  19. Thirteen Looking Backwards the English Country House through a Post-Modern Lens
  20. Epilogue
  21. Gazetteer
  22. Bibliography
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Index
  25. Supporters
  26. Copyright