Approaching the Interior of the Eighteenth-Century English Country House

• Published in: Style (University Park, PA) Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 543 - 562
• Main Author: Wall, Cynthia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: DeKalb Pennsylvania State University Press 22.12.2014; Penn State University Press
• Subjects: 18th century; Architectural design; Architecture; British & Irish literature; Cottages; Country homes; Criticism and interpretation; English language; Free indirect discourse; Houses; Language history; Narratives; Nouns; Novels; Portrayals; Reading; Rooms; Scott, Walter (1771-1832); Scottish literature; Windows; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; England

In the late eighteenth century in Britain, the term “approach” became a noun, with a very specific architectural meaning as “a variety ofroadpeculiar to a house in the country, designed as an experience in perspective to “form new combinations on every movement of the spectator” (J. C. Loudon, 1806)...