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A ground-breaking study of the late Georgian phenomenon of the 'architect-designed cottage', this study of small buildings built on country estates and small-looking buildings built in picturesque rural settings, resorts towns and suburban developments explores the discourse that articulated this architectural phenomenon. At the heart of the English idea of the cottage is a Classical idea about retreat from the city to the countryside.
List of contents
1. The Cottage, Rural Retreat and the Simple Life 2. The Cottage in English Architecture 3. The Architect-Designed Cottage 4. The Cottage in Arcadia 5. Architects, Patrons and Connoisseurs 6. Habitations of the Labourer 7. The Appreciation of Cottages 8. Re-Imagining the Vernacular 9. The Cottage Ornée 10. The Cottages of Old England
About the author
Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth. He has previously held positions at Plymouth School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Dalhousie University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Glasgow. From farmhouses in Nova Scotia to aristocratic retreats on English country estates, his work focuses on the social meanings of design and the consumption of domestic architecture in the early modern British Atlantic world. He also writes on architectural theory, modern vernaculars and the everyday.
