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Informationen zum Autor Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University Klappentext Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas. Zusammenfassung Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors! and the constant flows of goods! people and ideas. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: travel and the British country house - Jon Stobart1 'Antiquity mad': the influence of continental travel on the Irish houses of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop, 1730-1803 - Rebecca Campion2 From Rome to Stourhead and thence to Rome again: the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century English landscape garden - John Harrison3 Virtual travel and virtuous objects: chinoiserie and the country house - Emile de Bruijn4 Gentlemen tourists in the early eighteenth century: the travel journals of William Hanbury and John Scattergood - Rosie MacArthur5 A foreign appreciation of English country houses and castles: Dutch travel accounts on proto museums visited en route, 1683-1855 - Hanneke Ronnes and Renske Koster6 'Worth viewing by travellers': Arthur Young and country house picture collections in the late eighteenth century - Jocelyn Anderson7 'Enjoying country life to the full - only the English know how to do that!': appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers - Kristof Fatsar8 Magnificent and mundane: transporting people and goods to the country house, c. 1730-1800 - Jon Stobart9 On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 1597-1623 - Peter Edwards10 'No lady could do this': navigating gender and collecting objects in India and Scotland, c. 1810-50 - Ellen FilorIndex...
