Politics and the English country house, 1688-1800 /
"Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house: in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. Thus, as Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth cent...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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
