Her chronicle , Bowen's Court , tells the story of ten generations of an Anglo - Irish family in County Cork from the ... Bowen , the last inheritor of the Big House , was forced to sell it in 1959 ; 47 Elizabeth Bowen , Seven Winters ...
A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
Signs of the times is a book about personal taste in the British home. Based on the cult television series, it survey perceptions of good and bad taste, exploring the extraordinary range of emotions that lie behind our household choices.
The Aesthetics of Self-invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie
Of all the Lewisian narratives , Snooty Baronet is perhaps the most revealing . With his analytical " behavioristic " analysis of the human species , intellectual self - detachment , and cool narrative voice , the Baronet seems to be a ...
This study examines the theme of indolence in Romantic poetry and demonstrates the rich variety of experimental forms used by a quartet of poets: Wordsworth; Coleridge; Shelley; and Keats.
Eighteenth-century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England