The house of fiction : from Pemberley to Brideshead, great British houses in literature and life

著者

• Richardson, Phyllis

書誌事項

The house of fiction : from Pemberley to Brideshead, great British houses in literature and life

Phyllis Richardson

Unbound, 2017

• : hbk.

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB27247661
• ISBN:
  • 9781783523801
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xix, 460 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 823.0093564
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Dwellings in literature