Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.
Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.
Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: travel and the British country house Jon Stobart 1 'Antiquity mad': the influence of continental travel on the Irish houses of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop, 1730 1803 Rebecca Campion 2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again: the phenomenon of the eighteenth century English landscape garden John Harrison 3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects: chinoiserie and the country house Emile de Bruijn 4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century: the travel journals of William Hanbury and John Scattergood Rosie MacArthur 5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles: Dutch travel accounts on proto museums visited en route, 1683 1855 Hanneke Ronnes and Renske Koster 6 'Worth viewing by travellers': Arthur Young and country house picture collections in the late eighteenth century Jocelyn Anderson 7 'Enjoying country life to the full only the English know how to do that!': appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers Kristof Fatsar 8 Magnificent and mundane: transporting people and goods to the country house, c.1730 1800 Jon Stobart 9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597 1623 Peter Edwards 10 'No lady could do this': navigating gender and collecting objects in India and Scotland, c.1810 50 Ellen Filor Index
Introduction: travel and the British country house Jon Stobart 1 'Antiquity mad': the influence of continental travel on the Irish houses of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop, 1730 1803 Rebecca Campion 2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again: the phenomenon of the eighteenth century English landscape garden John Harrison 3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects: chinoiserie and the country house Emile de Bruijn 4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century: the travel journals of William Hanbury and John Scattergood Rosie MacArthur 5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles: Dutch travel accounts on proto museums visited en route, 1683 1855 Hanneke Ronnes and Renske Koster 6 'Worth viewing by travellers': Arthur Young and country house picture collections in the late eighteenth century Jocelyn Anderson 7 'Enjoying country life to the full only the English know how to do that!': appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers Kristof Fatsar 8 Magnificent and mundane: transporting people and goods to the country house, c.1730 1800 Jon Stobart 9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597 1623 Peter Edwards 10 'No lady could do this': navigating gender and collecting objects in India and Scotland, c.1810 50 Ellen Filor Index
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