The Georgian country house: architecture, landscape and society

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The country house : form, function and meaning / Dana Arnold -- The country house and its publics / Dana Arnold -- Publishing houses : prints of country seats / Tim Clayton -- One among the many : popular aesthetics, polite culture and the country house landscape / Stephen Bending -- Defining femininity : women and the country house / Dana Arnold -- The illusion of grandeur? Antiquity, grand tourism and the country house / Dana Arnold -- Town house and country house : their interaction / M.H. Port -- Jane Austen and the changing face of England / Philippa Tristram -- Living off the land : innovations in farming practices and farm design / Dana Arnold -- Richard Payne Knight and the picturesque landscape / Andrew Ballantyne.