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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"country house"”.
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A country house
A house is a shelter that brings protection and intimacy. These functions might be considered to be more than physical. Ancient Greek houses often had the lintel scripted "Know Thyself". Those houses had elements intended to bring man closer to an inner life necessary to know thyself. Such elements …
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A tudor country house
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1916.
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Ladies of the Country House: Irish Aristocratic Women, 1870-1918
… women played important roles within their country homes and in wider society. This research, which focuses on the period of great social, political and economic change, 1870-1918, examines the role of women in relation to their feminine duties, how aspects of their social lives including …
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Heritage Fictions: The Country-House Novel, Preservation, and the New Britain
… Child</italic> (2011), in revisiting the English country house, reveal the centrality of preservationism to twentieth-century British identity. According to most critics, this site grows increasingly anachronistic as the century progresses, a repository for that which is considered out of time in …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… symbolic-cultural representation: the English country house. The main purpose of the present work, which combines literary, biographical, historical, geographical, architectural and social analysis, is the re-evaluation of Mitford’s undervalued literary production, which has been relegated to …
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The 19th-century American country house : a prototype for multi-family housing.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… historians have greeted the first classical country houses as evidence of a renaissance culture, while English historians have treated them as a diversion from the mainstream development of British architecture. In reality, the number of classical country houses that were built in Scotland in …
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Obsolescence in the Scottish country house and conservation of the architectural fabric by conversion to tourist accommodation: identification of the key variables affecting the decision process.
The thesis presented in this study is that many country houses in Scotland have found a viable new use in conversion as tourist accommodation to the advantage of both tourism and conservation. The research project aimed to discover the truth of this statement. It investigated the factors involved …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
… energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, and the aims of poets writing that literature. …
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The development of a national heritage policy for libraries and book collections of country houses.
This work examines the country house libraries of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Hitherto this is an area largely overlooked both in terms of librarianship and social history. The first part of the thesis examines the historical development of book collections within country houses. In …
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A demonstration of riches: landscape narratives at Chatsworth
… narratives at Chatsworth; England’s most visited country house, and proposes new narratives that are more socially inclusive and that cover a broader swath of history. It also proposes a new mode of information dissemination based on the increased use of smartphones and other PDA’s. In exploring …
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Architectural planning and behavioural conventions in the re-use of spiritual properties in sixteenth-century London
… church owned properties in London; a monastic house at the beginning of the century and an episcopal inn at its close, the priorities for spatial organisation are identified. In order to understand how successfully the resulting re-use of architectural space upheld and reinforced the social …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
… allowing them to corrupt the rituals of country house society. Collins makes it possible for his readership to participate in reversing the flow of information as the novel uncovers and circulates this account of the consequences of disinformation among its readership. My second chapter …
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The Irish state and the Big House in independent Ireland, 1922–73
… the attitudes of the Irish state to the Big House after independence in 1922 until accession to the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) in 1973. State is used in this thesis to include governments, ministers, civil servants, politicians and state bodies. The term Big House will denote the …
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The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France
… the petite maison (otherwise known as a little house) in eighteenth-century France. In particular, I focus on a popular libertine novella written in 1758 by Jean-Francois de Bastide entitled appropriately enough La Petite maison. In the novella, Bastide conflates concepts of vice and virtue in …
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A Treasury of Comfort: A Study of Elite Comfort in the Long Eighteenth Century
… within but also outside of the confines of the country house. With this broader coverage of comfort and its interrelationship with the various aspects of elite life, this thesis also provides a fresh perspective from which to consider other, more established, areas of historical analysis such as …
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The Redecoration and Alteration of Castletown House By Lady Louisa Conolly 1759-76
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare is the largest and finest palladian1 country house in Ireland. Its building in 1722 marked the beginning of the palladian invasion of Ireland and the house is contemporary with the earliest examples of palladianism in England. The elegance and formality …
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Music and power at the English court, 1575-1624
… between 1575 and 1624 by considering masques, country house entertainments, royal entries and civic pageantry. It explores the changing discourse of music's place within court entertainments, and the ways that different types of entertainment present music. Music's associations with court power …
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
… role of elite women from a range of Yorkshire country houses in the eighteenth century. This group provides a very rich number of cases for this analysis. It first sets contemporary views of elite women in light of the traditional constructions of gendered roles which established a woman's …
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