Lives of houses:

A group of notable writers―including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow―celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? D...

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Körperschaft: The Lives of Houses (Veranstaltung) Oxford (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kennedy, Kate 1977- (HerausgeberIn), Lee, Hermione 1948- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:A group of notable writers―including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow―celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past
Beschreibung:"This collection originally came out of a conference titled "The Lives of Houses", held in 2017 at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford" (Preface, Seite xvi)
Beschreibung:xvii, 297 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780691193663