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Article: Kari Boyd McBride. Country House Discourse in Early Modern England: a Cultural Study of Landscape and Legitimacy.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.191 pp. $ 59.95 (cloth).
IN HIS BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (1945), Evelyn Waugh associates the architecture of the English country house with a fundamental Englishness: "More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman. In such buildings England abounded, and, in the last decade of their grandeur, Englishmen seemed for the first time to become conscious of what before was taken for granted, and to salute their achievement at ...