ISBN:
9780691201948
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0691201943
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lee, Hermione Lives of Houses
Keywords:
Dwellings Social aspects
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Dwellings in literature
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Dwellings in art
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Habitations - Aspect social
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Habitations dans la littérature
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Habitations dans l'art
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS - Essays
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Dwellings in art
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Dwellings in literature
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Dwellings - Social aspects
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Bernard O'Donoghue
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Blenheim
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Canadian historian
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Chartwell
;
Edward Lear
;
Elleke Boehmer
;
Felicity James
;
Gillian Darley
;
H. G. Wells
;
John Soane
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Laura Marcus
;
Mary Lamb
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Orchard House
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Rebecca Bullard
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Robert Douglas Fairhurst
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Samuel Johnson
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Sandra Mayer
;
Seamus Perry
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Susan Walker
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Tennyson
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Thoor Ballylee
;
Uppark
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Winston Churchill
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book for house lovers
;
famous houses
;
gifts for house lovers
Abstract:
A group of notable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. Editors Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee are joined by wide-ranging contributors, including Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, David Cannadine, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, Daisy Hay, Margaret MacMillan, Alexander Masters, and Jenny Uglow. We encounter W.H. Auden, living in joyful squalor in New York's St. Mark's Place, and W.B. Yeats in his flood-prone tower in the windswept West of Ireland. We meet Benjamin Disraeli, struggling to keep up appearances, and track the lost houses of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. We visit Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, England, and Jean Sibelius at Ainola, Finland. But Lives of Houses also considers those who are unhoused, unwilling or unable to establish a home--from the bewildered poet John Clare wandering the byways of England to the exiled Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera living on the streets of London. With more than forty illustrations, Lives of Houses illuminates what houses mean to us and how we use them to connect to and think about the past. The result is a fresh and engaging look at house and home
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preface /
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1. Moving House /
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2. Built on Memory /
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3. A House of Air /
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Family Houses
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4. My Mother's House /
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5. At Orchard House /
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6. Romantic Home /
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7. At Home with Tennyson /
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8. Chartwell: Winston Churchill's Dream House /
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9. The Quangle Wangle's Hat /
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10. Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh /
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11. 77 St. Mark's Place /
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12. Samuel Johnson's Houses /
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13. The Manor /
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14. At Home with the Disraelis /
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15. H.G. Wells at Uppark /
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16. The Fear of Houses /
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17. When There Is No House to Visit /
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18. "A Place One Can Go Mad In" /
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19. Safe Houses /
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20. "When All Is Ruin Once Again" /
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21. W.H. Auden in Austria /
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22. John Soane and House Autobiography /
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23. Ainola: Music and Silence /
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Acknowledgements
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List of Contributors
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Notes
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Index
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