Lives of Houses / / ed. by Kate Kennedy, Hermione Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Armitage, Simon,; Barnes, Julian,; Boehmer, Elleke,; Bullard, Rebecca,; Cannadine, David,; Darley, Gillian,; Dooley, Maura,; Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert,; Foster, Roy,; Harris, Alexandra,; Hay, Daisy,; James, Felicity,; Kenndedy, Kate,; Lee, Hermione,; Macmillan, Margaret,; Marcus, Laura,; Masters, Alexander,; Mayer, Sandra,; O’Donoghue, Bernard,; Perry, Seamus,; Uglow, Jenny,; Walker, Lucy,; Walker, Susan,
• HerausgeberIn: Kennedy, Kate,; Lee, Hermione,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 47 b/w illus.

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? Do...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Houses Lost and Found
• 1. Moving House
• 2. Built on Memory
• 3. A House of Air
• Family Houses
• 4. My Mother’s House
• 5. At Orchard House
• 6. Romantic Home
• Dream Houses
• 7. At Home with Tennyson
• 8. Chartwell
• Creative Houses
• 9. The Quangle Wangle’s Hat
• 10. Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh
• 11. 77 St. Mark’s Place
• 12. Samuel Johnson’s Houses
• House-Proud
• 13. The Manor
• 14. At Home with the Disraelis
• 15. H. G. Wells at Uppark
• Unhoused
• 16. The Fear of Houses
• 17. When There Is No House to Visit
• 18. “A Place One Can Go Mad In”
• 19. Safe Houses
• The Afterlives of Houses
• 20. “When All Is Ruin Once Again”
• 21. W. H. Auden in Austria
• 22. John Soane and House Autobiography
• 23. Ainola
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Notes
• Index