This work explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. It provides insight into many different areas: the role and rank of family and sevants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, scultpture, style, food and entertainment are all discussed and allow him to invoke a sense of 18th-century life as it was experienced by the inhabitants of these homes. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of the political significance of the country house in the Georgian period.
- ISBN10 0719047242
- ISBN13 9780719047244
- Publish Date 2 March 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 May 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English