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First edition

Prague : Karolinum Press, 2017

177 stran ; 21 cm

ISBN 978-80-246-3672-6 (brožováno)

ISBN 978-80-246-3696-2 (online ; pdf)

ISBN 978-80-246-4232-1 (online ; epub)

Obsahuje bibliografii 166-174, bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík

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Cue- Titles // 1. Introduction: The Country House Revisited 8 // 2. (Country) House since 1900 16 // 2.1 Building, Writing, Thinking 16 // 2.2 “Houses are alive. No?” Houses from the Viewpoint // of Modernist Sensibility 31 // 2.3 The Evolution of Country House Fiction in Historical // and Literary (Con)texts 37 // 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 61 // 3.1 “Days of Peculiar Splendour”: Summer in the Country House 62 // 3.2 Defining Dichotomies: Countryside and Class 71 // 3.3 Staging a Retreat in the Countryside: Problems of Dwelling // in Howards End and The Sea, The Sea 88 // 4. Strangers’ Children in the House: Post-millennial Echoes of the // Post-war Poetics of the Country House 100 // 4.1 Hollinghurst’s Subversive Sonata 103 // 4.2 Architectural Visions of the Country House 115 // 4.2.1 Fe/male Architects vs. Interior Designers 115 // 4.2.2 Victorian Eyesores vs. Modernist Sanatoriums 120 // 4.2.3 “As a ship in the Night”: On the Productivity // of the House-Ship Analogy 130 // 4.3 Barbarians at the Gates: Country House and the Poetics // of the Imminent Decline 135 // 4.4 The Country House and Time 148 // 5. Conclusion: The Country House Revisited 158 // Works Cited 166 // Index 175

(OCoLC)1011123713

cnb002929514