THE IMPRESS OF THE INVISIBLE: LODGES AND COTTAGES

• Published in: ELH Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 989 - 1012
• Main Author: WALL, CYNTHIA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...