The Country House Revisited : Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Cue-Titles -- 1. Introduction: The Country House Revisited -- 2. (Country) House since 1900 -- 2.1 Building Writing Thinking -- 2.2 "Houses are alive. No?" Houses from the Viewpoint of Modernist Sensibility -- 2.3 The Evolution of Country House Fiction in Historical and Literary (Con)texts -- 3. In Search of a House with a View: Poetic Parallels between the Conception of Dwelling in E. M. Forster's Howards End and Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea -- 3.1 "Days of Peculiar Splendour": Summer in the Country House -- 3.2 Defining Dichotomies: Countryside and Class -- 3.3 Staging a Retreat in the Countryside: Problems of Dwelling in Howards End and The Sea, The Sea -- 4. Strangers' Children in the House: Post-millennial Echoes of the Post-war Poetics of the Country House -- 4.1 Hollinghurst's Subversive Sonata -- 4.2 Architectural Visions of the Country House -- 4.2.1 Fe/male Architects vs. Interior Designers -- 4.2.2 Victorian Eyesores vs. Modernist Sanatoriums -- 4.2.3 "As a ship in the Night": On the Productivity of the House-Ship Analogy -- 4.3 Barbarians at the Gates: Country House and the Poetics of the Imminent Decline -- 4.4 The Country House and Time -- 5. Conclusion: The Country House Revisited -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Manors in literature. English literature--Themes, motives. English literature--20th century--History and criticism.