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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Dimmock is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex Margaret Healy is Professor of Literature and Culture at the University of Sussex Klappentext The Intellectual Culture of the English Country House is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays in the volume explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape gardening; interior design; the history of science and scientific experimentation; and the collection of portraits and paintings. The essays demonstrate the significance of the English country house and its place within larger local cultures that it helped to create and shape. The contributors survey and analyse a wide range of major English country houses; Knole House, Castle Howard, Petworth House, Penshurst Place, Hill Hall, and Lanhydrock House. Two essays reconstruct lost country houses from the surviving documentation; Otford Palace and Rycote House. The volume concludes with three essays which make up an in-depth case study of Wilton House, one of the principal residences of the Earls of Pembroke, where Sir Philip Sidney probably wrote The Arcadia. Taken together these essays provide a substantial overview of the country house culture of early modern England and the complicated relationship between the provinces and the national, the country and the city, in a period of rapid social, intellectual and economic transformation.The volume contains a new overview by Maurice Howard, President of the Society of Antiquaries, and reflections on the significance of the country house today by three professionals working with the National Trust. It will appeal to anyone interested in the culture of the country house and its place in early modern England. Zusammenfassung A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars! which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Margaret Healy1. 'The Lordship of the Eye': Country houses as the setting for intellectual enquiry - Maurice HowardPart I: Cultural reconstructions of the English country house2. William Warham's Otford Palace: An Archbishop's motivations for building (c.1514-26) - Alden Gregory3. Rediscovering a lost Tudor mansion through archives and manuscripts: The Rycote Project at the Bodleian Library - Matthew Neely4. 'To Knole, and then 'To Penshurst': The network of patronage between two country houses in the early seventeenth century - Edward TownPart II. Reconstructing the culture of the English country house5. Decorating the Godly Gallery: Piety and politics in plasterwork at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall - Tara Hamling6. Sir Thomas Smith's stillhouse at Hill Hall: printed books, antiquity and innovative practice - Richard Simpson7. A most studious searcher after truth: the 9th Earl of Northumberland and Scientia - Alison McCann8. Anne Finch and the fallen country house - Nicolle Jordan9. Elite pageantry as popular news: Elvetham House, John Wolfe, and country-house entertainment in print - Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich Part III: The country house library and its intellectual significance10. Country houses and the beginnings of bibliomania - James Raven11. Looking back from 1700: problems in locating the country house library - Susie West12. My Laydes Bookes att Noward...: Putting readers back into the english country house - Hannah DeGroffPart IV. Case study: Wilton House13. Wilton House and seventeenth-century country house literature - Anne Myers14. Performing Arcadia: Wilton House, theatre, and power - Marta Straznicky15. Wilton House and the art of floating meadows - Louise NobleAfterword - Andy Loukes, Nic...
