This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for 'the good life' and the pinnacle of 'civilisation'. In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as 'savage'. This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of ...
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This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for 'the good life' and the pinnacle of 'civilisation'. In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as 'savage'. This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of conflict between and symbiosis of 'civilisation' and 'savagery'.
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Add this copy of Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: to cart. $19.00, fair condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Fair in very good jacket. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild edgewear to boards, binding tight, text has previous owner's signature to front endpaper, underlining throughout in black and red ink. DJ rubbed and gently soiled. Reading/study copy only!
Add this copy of Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: to cart. $26.50, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Add this copy of Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: to cart. $48.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Near Fine in very good + jacket. First edition, 2003. Hardcover in dust jacket, illustrated, 211 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, light rubbing to the tips of the book's covers, some soiling or discoloration to the dust jacket, minor creasing to the tips of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Uncommon.
Add this copy of Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: to cart. $51.65, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2003 by Palgrave MacMillan.
Add this copy of Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: to cart. $51.65, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2002 by Palgrave MacMillan.
