Happy rural seat; the English country house and the literary imagination.

Main entry:

Gill, Richard, 1922-1989.

Title & Author:

Happy rural seat; the English country house and the literary imagination.

Publication:

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972.

Description:

xix, 305 pages illustrations 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The quest for community -- The great good place: Henry James and the country house -- Disputed heritage : the Edwardians and the country house: Wells, Forster, Galsworthy, Ford -- Shattered glass and toppling masonry : the country house between the wars: Shaw, Huxley, V. Sackville-West, Lawrence, Waugh, Isherwood -- Setting the house in order : the country house in a time of troubles: Yeats, Bowen, Green, Woolf, Cary, Waugh.

ISBN:

0300015240
9780300015249

Subject:

English fiction 19th century History and criticism.
English fiction 20th century History and criticism.
Pastoral fiction, English History and criticism.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Rural conditions in literature.
Country homes in literature.
Country life in literature.
Dwellings in literature.
Manors in literature.
Roman anglais 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
Conditions rurales dans la littérature.
Maisons de campagne dans la littérature.
Vie rurale dans la littérature.
Habitations dans la littérature.
English fiction.
Pastoral fiction, English.
Englisch
Literatur
Villa
Literaire thema's.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 90886
Call No.: W16551; ID:86-B17929
Status: Available

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