THE IMPRESS OF THE INVISIBLE: LODGES AND COTTAGES

This essay is part of a larger project that interests itself in things that ought to be in literature but are not. Here I consider the park gate lodge, a prominent eighteenth-century architectural phenomenon that in literature, as in life, just gets driven past, all eyes fixated on the great house a...

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Published inELH Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 989 - 1012
Main Author WALL, CYNTHIA
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2012
Subjects
Architectural design
Architecture
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Clare, John (1793-1864)
Cottages
English literature
Happiness
Houses
Landscape gardening
Mansions
Palaces
Pastoral poetry
Picturesque beauty
Robinson, David
Rooms
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Summary:This essay is part of a larger project that interests itself in things that ought to be in literature but are not. Here I consider the park gate lodge, a prominent eighteenth-century architectural phenomenon that in literature, as in life, just gets driven past, all eyes fixated on the great house ahead. It's a prepositional sort of structure, lurking just beneath the texture of the text. Yet its semi-invisibility bends the actions and imaginations of the characters in the novels of Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and John Bunyan. And when we look closely, it comes into focus, forcing us to ask what else we're not seeing in this text, in this world.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2012.0029