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03243aam a2200433 i 4500 001 91B42FCE497711EAA89E4F1797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200207010030 008 190913t20202019enkae b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1851244808 020 $a 9781851244805 035 $a (OCoLC)1121099422 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UAB $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PR830.H65 $b H37 2020 082 04 $a 823.0093564 $2 23 100 1 $a Hardyment, Christina, $e author. 245 10 $a Novel houses : $b twenty famous fictional dwellings / $c Christina Hardyment. 246 30 $a Twenty famous fictional dwellings 246 3 $a 20 famous fictional dwellings 246 30 $a Fictional dwellings 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Bodleian Library, $c 2020. 300 $a 250 pages : $b illustrations (some colour), plans ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-244) and index. 505 2 $a 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 -- Gazetteer. 520 8 $a 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.0We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how essential 221B Baker Street was to Sherlock Holmes and the importance of Bag End to the adventuring hobbits who called it home. It looks at why Bleak House is used as the name of a happy home and what was on Jane Austen's mind when she worked out the plot of Mansfield Park. Little-known background on the dwellings at the heart of Emily BronteÌ's Wuthering Heights, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast and Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm emerges, and the real life settings of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and E.M. Forster's Howards End, so fundamental to their stories, are shown to relate closely to their authors' passions and preoccupations. 0A winning combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses grand and small, imagined and real, or unique and ordinary, play in their continuing popularity. 650 0 $a Imaginary places. 650 0 $a English fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Home in literature. 650 0 $a Dwellings in literature. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Dwellings in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00900210 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Home in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959307 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200207011229.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91B42FCE497711EAA89E4F1797128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search