Novel houses : twenty famous fictional dwellings / Christina Hardyment.
Novel houses : twenty famous fictional dwellings / Christina Hardyment.
Novel houses : twenty famous fictional dwellings / Christina Hardyment.
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Publisher
Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2020.
Call Numbers
G 2019/5606 , G 2020/3243
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Language
English
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Physical content
250 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: The house as hero -- A triumphant illusion: Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto (1764) -- Tomb for the living: Charles Dicken's Bleak House (1852-53) -- Anchorage: E.M. Forster's Howard's End (1910) -- A household of the faith: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited (1945) -- Afterword...
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Publisher
Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2020.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it. We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how...
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Full title
Novel houses : twenty famous fictional dwellings / Christina Hardyment.
Portion of title
Fictional dwellings
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references ('further reading' (pages 240-244)) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2019
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G 2019/5606 , G 2020/3243
Record Identifier
74VKa2PpeZ5A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa2PpeZ5A
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ISBN
1851244808 (hardback)
9781851244805 (hardback)
DDC
823.0093564
MMS ID
991024273816502626
