The Intellectual Culture of the English Country House, 1500-1700

Herausgeber: Dimmock, Matthew; Healy, Margaret; Hadfield, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

The Intellectual Culture of the English Country House is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays in the volume explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape gardening; interior design; the history of science and scientific experimentation; and the collection of portraits and paintings. The essays demonstrate the significance of the English country house and its place within larger local cultures that it helped to create and shape. The contributors survey and analyse a wide range of major English country houses; Knole House, Castle Howard, Petworth House, Penshurst Place, Hill Hall, and Lanhydrock House. Two essays reconstruct lost country houses from the surviving documentation; Otford Palace and Rycote House. The volume concludes with three essays which make up an in-depth case study of Wilton House, one of the principal residences of the Earls of Pembroke, where Sir Philip Sidney probably wrote The Arcadia. Taken together these essays provide a substantial overview of the country house culture of early modern England and the complicated relationship between the provinces and the national, the country and the city, in a period of rapid social, intellectual and economic transformation. The volume contains a new overview by Maurice Howard, President of the Society of Antiquaries, and reflections on the significance of the country house today by three professionals working with the National Trust. It will appeal to anyone interested in the culture of the country house and its place in early modern England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090202
• ISBN-10: 0719090202
• Artikelnr.: 37253874

Autorenporträt

Matthew Dimmock is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex Margaret Healy is Professor of Literature and Culture at the University of Sussex

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Margaret Healy 1. 'The
Lordship of the Eye': Country houses as the setting for intellectual
enquiry - Maurice Howard Part I: Cultural reconstructions of the English
country house 2. William Warham's Otford Palace: An Archbishop's
motivations for building (c.1514-26) - Alden Gregory 3. Rediscovering a
lost Tudor mansion through archives and manuscripts: The Rycote Project at
the Bodleian Library - Matthew Neely 4. 'To Knole, and then 'To Penshurst':
The network of patronage between two country houses in the early
seventeenth century - Edward Town Part II. Reconstructing the culture of
the English country house 5. Decorating the Godly Gallery: Piety and
politics in plasterwork at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall - Tara Hamling 6. Sir
Thomas Smith's stillhouse at Hill Hall: printed books, antiquity and
innovative practice - Richard Simpson 7. A most studious searcher after
truth: the 9th Earl of Northumberland and Scientia - Alison McCann 8. Anne
Finch and the fallen country house - Nicolle Jordan 9. Elite pageantry as
popular news: Elvetham House, John Wolfe, and country-house entertainment
in print - Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich Part III: The country house library
and its intellectual significance 10. Country houses and the beginnings of
bibliomania - James Raven 11. Looking back from 1700: problems in locating
the country house library - Susie West 12. My Laydes Bookes att Noward...:
Putting readers back into the english country house - Hannah DeGroff Part
IV. Case study: Wilton House 13. Wilton House and seventeenth-century
country house literature - Anne Myers 14. Performing Arcadia: Wilton House,
theatre, and power - Marta Straznicky 15. Wilton House and the art of
floating meadows - Louise Noble Afterword - Andy Loukes, Nicholas Pickwoad
and Mark Purcell Index