Living Space in Fact and Fiction

by Philippa Tristram

Overview

First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the ‘real’ world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist. The role of the house, in fact and fiction, tells us much about the space we live in, while the work of contemporary architects and designers illuminates aspects of the novelist’s art. Profusely illustrated, Living Space takes the history of the house from the Georgian world of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela through the works of novelists such as Jane Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, up to 1914, when the notion of the house changes its nature. Philippa Tristram is concerned not only with the structure and organization of the house, but with the inner life lived within it. She shows how the subconscious life of the family was transformed over a century and a half, revealed in the shape and structure of the home. This book will be of interest to students of literature, history and architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040013724
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2024
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	134 MB
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About the Author

Philippa Tristram

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. The Dairy House at Blaise 2. Aspects of Chesney World 3. Dorothea’s cottages 4. Stories in stone 5. Mrs Gereth’s immorality 6. Barton Cottage and the ‘perfect pastoral’ 7. Immaterial walls Notes Index