Cover
Contents
Cue-Titles
1. Introduction: The Country House Revisited
2.1 Building Writing Thinking
2.2 "Houses are alive. No?" Houses from the Viewpoint of Modernist Sensibility
2.3 The Evolution of Country House Fiction in Historical and Literary (Con)texts
3. In Search of a House with a View: Poetic Parallels between the Conception of Dwelling in E. M. Forster’s Howards End and Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea
3.1 “Days of Peculiar Splendour”: Summer in the Country House
3.2 Defining Dichotomies: Countryside and Class
3.3 Staging a Retreat in the Countryside: Problems of Dwelling in Howards End and The Sea, The Sea
4. Strangers’ Children in the House: Post-millennial Echoes of the Post-war Poetics of the Country House
4.1 Hollinghurst’s Subversive Sonata
4.2.1 Fe/male Architects vs. Interior Designers
4.2.2 Victorian Eyesores vs. Modernist Sanatoriums
4.2.3 “As a ship in the Night”: On the Productivity of the House-Ship Analogy
4.3 Barbarians at the Gates: Country House and the Poetics of the Imminent Decline
4.4 The Country House and Time
5. Conclusion: The Country House Revisited
Works Cited
Index