Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellngs, by Christina Hardyment
How did Uncle Tom's Cabin influence the American Civil War? Why was Bleak House used as the name of a happy home and what did Jane Austen have in mind when she worked out the plot for Mansfield Park?
Novel Houses visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel with place at its heart, from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca to Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
A 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.
Hardback: 250 pages
Publisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851244805
Product Dimensions: 16 x 3 x 24.4 cm