{"product_id":"the-intellectual-culture-of-the-english-country-house-15001700-9780719090202","title":"The Intellectual Culture of the English Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Over the two hundred years covered in this wide-ranging collection of articles, country houses were among the most important centres of literary and cultural activity in England. Their architecture, decoration, and social history have been extensively chronicled by Mark Girouard, Maurice Howard, and others, but their significance for English culture in its wider sense has received less scholarly attention. This engaging collection of short articles goes a long way towards redressing that balance … This well-written, well-edited volume deserves the attention of anyone interested in the art, literature, and wider culture of early modern England. It makes the important point that country houses were not just vehicles for ostentatious display; they could also be settings for creative leisure, or \u003ci\u003eotium\u003c\/i\u003e as the ancient Romans saw it in contrast to the \u003ci\u003enegotium\u003c\/i\u003e of the workaday world.'\u003cbr\u003eNotes and Queries\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Margaret Healy\u003cbr\u003e1. ‘The Lordship of the Eye’: Country houses as the setting for intellectual enquiry – Maurice Howard\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Cultural reconstructions of the English country house\u003cbr\u003e2. William Warham’s Otford Palace: An Archbishop’s motivations for building (c.1514–26) – Alden Gregory\u003cbr\u003e3. Rediscovering a lost Tudor mansion through archives and manuscripts: The Rycote Project at the Bodleian Library – Matthew Neely\u003cbr\u003e4. ‘To Knole, and then ‘To Penshurst’: The network of patronage between two country houses in the early seventeenth century – Edward Town\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Reconstructing the culture of the English country house\u003cbr\u003e5. Decorating the Godly Gallery: Piety and politics in plasterwork at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall – Tara Hamling\u003cbr\u003e6. Sir Thomas Smith’s stillhouse at Hill Hall: printed books, antiquity and innovative practice – Richard Simpson\u003cbr\u003e7. A most studious searcher after truth: the 9th Earl of Northumberland and Scientia – Alison McCann\u003cbr\u003e8. Anne Finch and the fallen country house – Nicolle Jordan\u003cbr\u003e9. Elite pageantry as popular news: Elvetham House, John Wolfe, and country-house entertainment in print – Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich \u003cbr\u003ePart III: The country house library and its intellectual significance\u003cbr\u003e10. Country houses and the beginnings of bibliomania – James Raven\u003cbr\u003e11. Looking back from 1700: problems in locating the country house library – Susie West\u003cbr\u003e12. My Laydes Bookes att Noward...: Putting readers back into the english country house – Hannah DeGroff\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Case study: Wilton House\u003cbr\u003e13. Wilton House and seventeenth-century country house literature – Anne Myers\u003cbr\u003e14. Performing Arcadia: Wilton House, theatre, and power – Marta Straznicky\u003cbr\u003e15. Wilton House and the art of floating meadows – Louise Noble\u003cbr\u003eAfterword  - Andy Loukes, Nicholas Pickwoad and Mark Purcell\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884288848215,"sku":"9780719090202","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-intellectual-culture-of-the-english-country-house-15001700-9780719090202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}