Politics and the English country house, 1688-1800
Cover -- Politics and the English Country House,1688-1800 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Table and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE: POLITICAL POSITIONING AFTER THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION -- 2 Introduction -- 3 For Politics, Progresses, or Posterity? Some Alternative Reas...
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McGill-Queen's University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Politics and the English Country House,1688-1800 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Table and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE: POLITICAL POSITIONING AFTER THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION -- 2 Introduction -- 3 For Politics, Progresses, or Posterity? Some Alternative Reasons for Building State Apartments -- 4 Holding Court at Marlborough House: The London Residence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough -- PART TWO: THE QUESTION OF STYLE -- 5 Introduction -- 6 Gothic Architecture and the Liberty Trope -- 7 'Whig Gothic': An Antidote to Houghton Hall -- 8 The House with Two Faces: From Baroque to Palladian at Wentworth Woodhouse -- PART THREE: THE SOCIAL POLITICS OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE -- 9 Introduction -- 10 Burke's Exemplum: The 'Natural Family Mansion' and Wentworth Woodhouse -- 11 House Painting: Place and Position in Estate Portraiture circa 1770 -- 12 The House and Estate of a Rich West Indian: Two Slaveholders in Eighteenth-Century East Anglia -- PART FOUR: HOUSES AND HOMES -- 13 Introduction -- 14 The Clives at Home: Self-Fashioning, Collecting, and British India -- 15 William Pitt the Younger, 1759-1806: Reshaping the Political Home -- Afterword: Whose Country House? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. Politics and the English Country House explores the relationship between the country house and the changing British political landscape of the eighteenth century. Essays explore how the country house was a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, and a symbol of party allegiance and political values. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 324 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780228014973 978-0-228-01497-3 |