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Lives of Houses /
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? D...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Hermione Lee
- Houses Lost and Found. 1. Moving House / Alexandra Harris
- 2. Built on Memory / Susan Walker
- 3. A House of Air / Hermoine Lee
- Family Houses
- 4. My Mother's House / Margaret Macmillian
- 5. At Orchard House / At Orchard House
- 6. Romantic Home / Felicity James
- Dream Houses. 7. At Home with Tennyson / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
- 8. Chartwell: Winston Churchill's Dream House / David Cannadine
- Creative Houses. 9. The Quangle Wangle's Hat / Jenny Uglow
- 10. Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh / Lucy Walker
- 11. 77 St. Mark's Place / Seamus Perry
- 12. Samuel Johnson's Houses / Rebecca Bullard
- House-Proud. 13. The Manor / Simon Armitage-- 14. At Home with the Disraelis / Daisy Hay
- 15. H.G. Wells at Uppark / Laura Marcus
- Unhoused. 16. The Fear of Houses / Alexander Masters.
- 17. When There Is No House to Visit / Elleke Boehmer
- 18. "A Place One Can Go Mad In" / Kate Kennedy
- 19. Safe Houses / Bernard O'Donoghue
- The Afterlives of Houses. 20. "When All Is Ruin Once Again" / Roy Foster
- 21. W.H. Auden in Austria / Sandra Mayer
- 22. John Soane and House Autobiography / Gillian Darley
- 23. Ainola: Music and Silence / Julian Barnes
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Notes
- Index