From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: the English country house from Austen to Altman.(Miscellany)

From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Graham, Peter W. | Copyright information

DURING THE TWO CENTURIES bracketed by Jane Austen's country house novels (Mansfield Park among them) and Robert Altman's recent country house film Gosford Park, a sort of Darwinian evolution in architecture, landscape, and social structure has played out. (1) The late eighteenth through twentieth centuries have witnessed the heyday and subsidence of that stone or brick, emparked or embowered phenomenon Henry James memorably called "the great good place," a cultural icon signifying ...

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