Novel houses : twenty famous fictional dwellings / Christina Hardyment, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: GrandeBretagne.Publication : Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2020Description: 1 volume (250 pages) : illustrations, plans ; 24 cmISBN: 978-1-85124-480-5; 1-85124-480-8.Dewey: 823.0093564, 23Contents note: Introduction: The house as hero A triumphant illusion: Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto (1764) The bewildered house: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) Bridging two worlds: Walter Scott's Waverly (1814) A plague on both your houses: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) Dark romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Tomb for the living: Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1852-53) Kitchen table society: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) Bachelor lair: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927) Household gods: Henry James's The spoils of Poynton (1896) Property: John Galsworthy's The Forsyte saga (1906-21) Anchorage: E.M. Forster's Howard's End (1910) Colossal illusion: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby (1925) The queerest sense of echo: Virginia Woolfe's Orlando (1928) & Vita Sackville West's The Edwardians (1930) Sheer flapdoodle: Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm (1932) House of secrets: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) A household of the faith: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited (1945) The sorcerer's tower: Dodie Smith's I capture the castle (1948) Vast shambles: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (1947-59) Deep roots: J. R. R. Tolkien's The hobbit (1937) & The lord of the rings (1954-55) Castle of ancient magic: J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter (1997-2007) Afterword Gazetteer Bibliography: Bibliographie pages [240]-244. Index.Subject - Topical Name: Lieux imaginaires | Habitations Dans la littérature Subject - Form: Roman anglais Histoire et critique | Roman américain Histoire et critique List(s) this item appears in: 2023_AGREG anglais - Brontë "Wuthering Heights"| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Bibliographie pages [240]-244. Index
Introduction: The house as hero A triumphant illusion: Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto (1764) The bewildered house: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) Bridging two worlds: Walter Scott's Waverly (1814) A plague on both your houses: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) Dark romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Tomb for the living: Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1852-53) Kitchen table society: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) Bachelor lair: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927) Household gods: Henry James's The spoils of Poynton (1896) Property: John Galsworthy's The Forsyte saga (1906-21) Anchorage: E.M. Forster's Howard's End (1910) Colossal illusion: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby (1925) The queerest sense of echo: Virginia Woolfe's Orlando (1928) & Vita Sackville West's The Edwardians (1930) Sheer flapdoodle: Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm (1932) House of secrets: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) A household of the faith: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited (1945) The sorcerer's tower: Dodie Smith's I capture the castle (1948) Vast shambles: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (1947-59) Deep roots: J. R. R. Tolkien's The hobbit (1937) & The lord of the rings (1954-55) Castle of ancient magic: J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter (1997-2007) Afterword Gazetteer
